Lehner, P. 1964 27 Oct. 12 - continued battered up; from this point on the rain fell almost constantly all night long and the winds blew in perfect harmony with the rain - the only variation we had was the the ferocity with which each element beat upon us; when I reached the bush, Chris and Binion had already dug in, and Ken quickly joined us; it took us only a very short time to begin cursing having not brought some sort of shelter with us; we thought about turning the raft over but decided it was too heavy and we were too miserable to attempt it; George and Larry went on banding somewhere on the island - earlier Harry had caught a Christmas Island Shearwater and later caught a mottled phase Reef Heron; it is impossible to describe how miserable I felt and how bleak my outlook was as the rain soaked me from head to foot, the wind beat through my thin shirt and chilled me to the bone and my sore feet throbbed with deadened pain; it was obvious that we were destined to spend the next 8 hrs. in this manner, as it was about 10 P.M. when we first crawled beneath the bush; after about one hour of (over)