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Lehner P.
1964
113
Nov. 8
in the early A.M. Binion (and somebody else)
went to the dump and retrieved the mouse
traps containing two Mus; at 9:00 A.M. all
of us (including Ben Brown and excepting Ken)
took a raft to North Loi Island collecting
fish; we put Roger and Dave ashore and
then anchored the raft about 200 yards out
on the lagoon side and began poisoning;
there was a house on the island and
a yardfull of about 10 pigs which we
could see rooting through Roger and Dave's
gear; we had good success with the fish
collecting several varieties that appear to be
new species; one large moray eel (about 5 ft.)
also fell prey to the poison - we saw no sharks;
Roger collected 2 Common Noddies, 3 Hawaiian
Noddies and 1 Fairy Tern on North Loi, and
2 Common Noddies were collected from the raft
off Ebeye on the way to North Loi; we
returned to the ship at 3:00 P.M., arrived
in time for chow, and then slit fish after eating;
the evening and night brought forth the usual
and not the unusual.