Lehner P. 1964 143 Nov. 14 Having Friday the 13th over with, the first thing thing I should have seen today was a canoe load of native girls heading for the ship, but the first thing that I can remember taking notice of was the turtles' umbilicus - they still have vestiges of it between the plastron plates; at 9:00 George, Larry, Dave and some of the crew went into Butaritari; at 9:10 Binion, Ken, Chris and I headed for Kotabu Is. again and ultimately Tikerere Is. and nearby sandbars; Roger stayed on board to skin birds - whether to try to catch up to Larry in number skinned or whether yesterday's experience in the raft and his inability to swim made him apprehensive today I don't know; we beached the raft on Kotabu Is. at 9:50 and prepared to collect. birds and take blood; we collected: 5 Fairy Terns, 4 Common Noddies, 1 Wandering Tattler and 1 Hawaiian Nodde; Ken also found the Frigatebird that was shot but not found yesterday; at 11:30 we ate some of the sandwiches we brought, I had a swim and then made a radio check with the ship, explaining our plans to continue on to Tikerere Is.; we left Kotabu Is. at 12:00 and headed north toward the sandy Island between Kotabu Is. and Tokerere Is.; we (over)