Page 2 WASHINGTON ISLAND The party got off to a bad start here when the ship refused to give passage to the manager of Fanning Island Plantations (this includes Washington Island). The ship made a real hash of saying no finally ending with the captain refusing to talk to Mr. Palmer. This is not likely to help our relations and it is very possible that we will be refused permission to land on future visits. Mr. Freu, Washington Island Manager, was as kind as ever and allowed Mr. Long and Captain Holway to stay ashore with as his guest. The rest of the party came ashore for the day on the 25th and 26th. The usual surveys were carried out and banding as usual was impossible. Palmyra Island Despite an exasperating and sometimes dangerous series of failures on the ship's part the party landed on the 27th and departed on the 29th without lose of life or injury to any members of the party. 1404 birds were banded, 7 were collected (including two species new to the island) and 93 blood samples were taken. Because of the short time ashore and the size of the island it proved impractical to make a survey of the entire area. The ship's crew was very cooperative right to the end of the cruise. This spirit of cooperation was not shared by Captain Viessmann who accidently or intentionally made every aspect of life aboard and ashore more trying than is normal on an ATF cruise. The final boat runs on Palmyra were considered so unsafe by the crew that none of them would come ashore for liberty and yet the captain continued to run unsafe boats in with unreliable motors. It is no exaggeration to say that had one of these boats or motors given out the entire party in the boat would have swept out to sea and once at sea their chances of being spotted by [illegible] a searching ship would have been very small.