. Atoll research bulletin. Coral reefs and islands; Marine biology; Marine sciences. 53 the inner basin and made a count of the young Laysan Albatross now present. At the same time Reno counted the Sula cyanops. Reno had put out several blocks of poisoned alfalfanear rock piles where the last of the rabbits seem to be hanging out. Counting birds and walking across the sands here is precarious business as at every ten steps I step into a covered petrel or shearwater burrow. Schlemmer and I have discovered the remains of stumps of 2 palm trees northeast of the lagoon. I have seen these figured i
. Atoll research bulletin. Coral reefs and islands; Marine biology; Marine sciences. 53 the inner basin and made a count of the young Laysan Albatross now present. At the same time Reno counted the Sula cyanops. Reno had put out several blocks of poisoned alfalfanear rock piles where the last of the rabbits seem to be hanging out. Counting birds and walking across the sands here is precarious business as at every ten steps I step into a covered petrel or shearwater burrow. Schlemmer and I have discovered the remains of stumps of 2 palm trees northeast of the lagoon. I have seen these figured in old cuts. In the afternoon I put up six teal and found them very fat and greasy. I skinned them, cut off the excess fat with a sharp knife, applied alum to the heads and then salted them. In the evening the sun broke through partly and gave us a beautiful rosy sunset masked in front by a heavy bank of black cloud. After a half hour of amusements in listening to the caterwauling of the shearwaters I went in and worked on my Figure 15. Sketch map of Laysan Island from Wetmore's journal. May 8, Tuesday Awoke this morning to find a slow rain falling which increased until a considerable volume of water fell during the forenoon. We caught water in pails and barrels until all available containers were filled with fresh sweet water. Sufficient birds were on hand to occupy the forenoon together with notes. The weather cleared somewhat toward noon and in the afternoon I made a trip around the entire island with Schlemmer to complete a count of the young albatross. We returned at five. At the northern end of the island we found three small turtles hauled out and collected one for the table. I kept the shell, which was an unusually perfect one, as a souvenir of Laysan. (9/27/69. The shell is on the wall in my library at home.) [note added later—this shell is still in the possession of Mrs. Wetmore]. Shearv/aters were unusually noisy during the night kept us all awake more or le
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