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Lehner, P.
1964
48
Oct. 16
It rained all night; I awoke to rain, so I
rolled over only to hear the motor of the
approaching raft; it arrived at 9:20 bearing
2 barrels of chow and Roger; Roger stopped at
the shipwreck aground in the passage on the
way in and saw a couple rats running about-
he collected one dead one (mostly just skeleton);
we sat in the tents and waited out the rain,
deciding that when it stopped we would pack
up and move camp to one of the two
northernmost islands; at 10:10 the storm
abated and we began breaking camp; the max-min.
thermometer read 87-85 (hard to believe); by 11:15
we had started across the lagoon and were heading
north; the lagoon was calm as glass on the
surface with the water crystal clear; a large
storm was still threatening to drench us on our
journey; at 11:45 we landed on Jaboero-to, the
middle island in the atoll; a sanderling was seen and
shot at twice but not collected; there are only two
plants on this treeless island, what appears to be
Portulaca and another low succulent; we found
5 moray eels in the tidal pools; at 12:05 we
left Jaboero-to and headed north toward
Armeni-to, both rafts busily clogging coral heads;
(over)