Lehner, P. 1964 73 Oct.22 - continued the raft had been beached we found the tide way up and the raft 150 yards out in the lagoon; I volunteered to retrieve the raft while Roger worked on the birds; I was able to wade all the way out to the raft but on the way encountered two. Black-tipped sharks - one about 4.5 feet long was the largest of this species I have seen to date; they were attracted by my movement in the water but were scared off when I threw coral rocks from the bottom at them - needless to say I was happy to climb aboard the raft; at 1:15 we left Eluk and and returned to the ship where we put the birds in the freezer, deposited some gear, and then headed for Taka Is.; we arrived on Taka at 3:10 and the first thing to catch my eye was the pile of Sooty Tern feathers, etc. which had remained from the natives meal last night; someone had cut up a breadfruit which I tasted and found to be very similar to banana in flavor; just as we were all off to collect Sooty Tern blood at the southeast corner of the island, Ken returned saying he had seen a Ruddy Turnstone with a red rump (indicating it had been banded by our field party in the Pribiloff Islands); over