. Atoll research bulletin. Coral reefs and islands; Marine biology; Marine sciences. 113 the night. About midnight the wind died down completely to be followed by a few puffs of air. The sky to the south and southwest was heavily overcast and lightning came at times. Apparently it was high in air as the clap of thunder that followed was slow in coming. I was out at midnight, closed the front of the tent and put a guy rope on the front pole toward the wind. The surf seethed and roared without letup or cessation of noise during the entire night. Between twelve and one, four slight earth tremors
. Atoll research bulletin. Coral reefs and islands; Marine biology; Marine sciences. 113 the night. About midnight the wind died down completely to be followed by a few puffs of air. The sky to the south and southwest was heavily overcast and lightning came at times. Apparently it was high in air as the clap of thunder that followed was slow in coming. I was out at midnight, closed the front of the tent and put a guy rope on the front pole toward the wind. The surf seethed and roared without letup or cessation of noise during the entire night. Between twelve and one, four slight earth tremors lasting only a second or two each shook the island slightly. August 4, Saturday Was out at daybreak and found that I had caught a breaker full of water from a crude eave trough fastened on the tent fly of the skinning tent. Drizzling rain continued with a moderate breeze from the southwest. I was relieved to find the ship's dinghy, at anchor in our little bay, still in place. The sky was clear at the horizon in the east so that the first rays of the rising sun illuminated the storm clouds above us and to the south, tinging them with weird hues of copper, light green and olive, a strange effect, with a rainbow at one side. The whole suggested the appearance of some of the severe storms of the middle west. In a few minutes the light had disappeared, leaving the sky a dull gray relieved only by low drifting clouds. Here at Wake we seem to be only in the edge of the storm as the horizon to the north is clear. Rain stopped at nine and I went out and collected some terns that I needed to complete the series on Wilkes Island near camp. The three islands that encircle the lagoon here at Wake have been designated as in the following crude *** 1 ^ c c â â â -- â^ xJP^ y f j w Figure 39. Sketch map of the Wake Islands from Wetmore's journal. Because Wetmore named both Wilkes and Peale islands, this is probably the first map ever made on which these names appear. Specimens tak
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