R.D. Kirkpatrick 1945 Journal Atafu Atoll, Tokelau Islands Mar Noon. We went ashore at the village 3 and went through a channel into the Wed. lagoon. We went across the lagoon in the two rubber rafts with our gear and approx. one dozen natives. We stopped at a large island. Huber and Merrill shot birds, Hackman collected insects, Woodward collected plants, Thompson collected fish and I collected lizards, geckos and rats (with the aid of a native boy named Peo). We were soaked by a down- pour of rain. In the evening we went to a small island that had 2 fales on it (where sick natives went to recuperate). We set up camp. After dark, I used the pistol to collect 2 Polynesian rats then I made them into study skins (RDK #566 and RDK 567) Mar. I took Peo and a native schoolteacher, 4 Amuria Batea, with me to run the Thu rat traps on the island where we had collected on the 3rd. We left the atoll.