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Lehner P.
1944
Nov. 11 - continued 3
I took pictures of the people who were eager
to pose and generous with smiles and laughter;
the head of the local Womens Club inquired
through Lanny when we were leaving and invited
us to eat in the main village; being 12:15
we accepted and arranged to partake of their
food at the dispensary where we were to meet
Dave; we continued down the path with three
small girls following in awe; when I stopped
to take a picture of a couple huts the natives
immediately ran out into the path and posed,
blocking out almost completely the purpose of
the picture; just as I was snapping the
shutter Roger, half startled, snapped, "What the —
is that - excuse me," and pointed to a Brown
Booby perched on a window sill; on inquiry Lanny
explained that he had brought 20 young Brown
Boobies from another island over here, but only
4 or 5 were still living as pets - he stated that
although the bird is fed fish by its master, it
still fishes for itself and returns home; we
returned to the pond in hopes of collecting
the unknown shorebird - so far we had collected
2 Golden Plover, 1 Common Noddy and 1 Fairy
Tern; on approaching the pond we could see four
shorebirds - one of which looked like a Golden Plover,
but with a gray head - just as I was about to
lower the gun muzzle under a palm frond and
(over)