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are sandy and the whole place is overgrown with trees, vines, etc., much mangrove and "parapat". At high water, there was about four feet of water in about the centre of the island but everywhere are trees and vines, making the place most beautiful. I could easily imagine myself in some far inland jungle lake not near salt water. The entire scene changes within one hundred feet.
   A blue and white kingfisher and two species of sun birds are the commonest birds on the island but great numbers of frigate birds come to roost, and from the Bajans I learned that white pigeons as well as the large maave breasted ones sometimes come here, though I saw none. Two or three little blue herons flew in from one of the other islands about dusk.
   The moon was about two hours up when there came a northeast breeze and I thought we could reach Derawan and the tide was not yet low, so we started heading westward until we had cleared all the reefs and then turned northwestward; the current was very strong but we did however make headway. After midnight, I slept for about an hour or so & when I awoke, found we were headed back for Samama with west wind behind us and a storm coming rapidly from the north. We reached back to the same place we had started from.

Monday, April 21, 1913.
Pulo Samama.
   Notwithstanding having had no sleep last night, Ah Sing and I started straight to preparing the specimens of yesterday and the Bajans slept a couple of hours and then took their spears & went after fish, returning in about two hours and one half with over forty fish.