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wind calming down we had a beautiful evening the sun shining on brightly colored clouds as it dissapeared and the clear brilliant light of the full moon swinging like a large molten silver on whose face we could see very distinctly with ordinary glasses the largest crater. Directly ahead lay a broad silvered path of glittering light along which we steamed. As the orange and yellow faded over the sun the stars and planets came out one after the other with their brilliant diamond points dotting the sky in solitary radiance for the smaller stars were rendered invisible by the brilliancy of the moon. About 9:30 PM. we came to anchor just of Chamisso & Puffin Is. & next Choris peninsula. 

Chamisso Is. and Elephant Pt.
September 7th

In the morning Dr. R., Prof. M. & myself took the dinghy & pulled in to Puffin I. which we found consists of a rugged, precipitous mass of (apparently) talcose schist.

The islet is perhaps 200 to 300 yds long rather narrow & is covered with a low but thick growth of bright green grass wherever any soil gave it a foothold. The other end composed of a rugged pillar like mass of rock afforded nesting sites on its rugged sides to a large number of Kittiwakes (kotzbues). The young were all fledged and able to fly though many of them stood on their narrow shelf-like perches dotting the face of the massive pillar like - end of the island. These young were very innocent and the only one I could get 

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