Lehner P. 1904 84 /33 Nov. 13 FRIDAY Not being superstitious, I had no worries about today's happenings, but as it turned out I should have been wary. Binion and Ken started the at sea watch at 6:00 A.M., and George and I relieved them at 8:00; the weather was fair but there was a marked paucity of birds today; we had a small rain squall during the watch, so I climbed into the cover of the wheelhouse - here I whistled a little to make things seem brighter - Capt. Kroll told me that on most ships this whistling would not be allowed as it is believed to bring bad weather at sea - I continued to whistle and brought on nothing worse than more rain; at 9:10 Makin Atoll (Makin pronounced with a short A) was sighted off the port bow; today I noticed flying-fish with different colored fins in the same immediate vicinity; at 11:30 we entered the south passage of Makin Atoll into the lagoon and then headed southeast toward Butaritari Island; by 12:00 we could see the village of Butaritari spread out along the lagoon side of the island; at 12:12 we dropped anchor about 2 miles off the village of Butaritari; while one of our rafts was being lowered into the water, George picked up a Tridacna from the deck with his fingers (over)