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Ap. 26 - 1940
not so very far back but on very steep slopes; with an ax would have felled quite easily but pecking away with small hand ax and machete was a very [[strikethrough]]S[[/strikethrough]] tedious & I might say exhausting task.

And not that we got what we went after palm seeds I'm afraid we've gotten a lot of not fully ripe seeds stained hands & rock a dark blue; at dinner used lime on fish & it turned the dark blue a bright [[inserted]] livid [[/inserted]] pink allee same litmus.

Sub tender gave us a lift out to Mallard. but as I had forgotten one soil & leafy [[?]] I went [[inserted]] (in our surf boat) [[/inserted]] right back for a bucket full to carry palm seeds in. gave Capt one young palm plant I found down in stream bed where it surely would have been uprooted and washed out to sea with first really torrential rain. As heavy as rain was [[strikethrough]] and[[/strikethrough]] in morning & on night of 27 it must have been nothing at all to real rain. because the [[strikethrough]] little side [[/strikethrough]]