Lehner, Philip N., 1964-1965
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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)