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breeze and got within two or three miles of our destination, when the wind died, and we anchored in about 30 fathoms of water. Take some skins out of pickle and wash & scive them.

Early in the afternoon came a light easterly breeze and we reached Balik Kukup shortly before sundown, in good time to set the traps.

The island is all cleared and planted with coconuts, there being only two or three big trees other than coconuts. The island has no true harbor close by but the natives have their houses on the north side and keep their prahns there, but at low tide there is no water at all for about two hundred yards from shore, and to the east the sandy reef runs a long ways.

Monday, June 9, 1913.
Pulo Balik Kukup.

I was very much surprised to find the rats on this island so different from those of the other islands. This species is probably closely related to Epimys ephippium. The old Bajan, Ama Si Paula, who owns most of the trees here and has lived here for about twenty years told me that formerly there were large rats here but that they had long since been exterminated by his cats, thus the only mammals of the island are the small rats and the small Pteropus; the latter are common and destroy many coconuts.

Tuesday, June 10, 1913.
Pulo Balok Kukup.

When I had finished making up skins I went and shot more bats and three birds. Birds cannot be considered common here. There are some kingfishers, small herons and I saw two small birds about the size of caterpillar shrikes, but did not get a shot at them, and I got a swift which probably was only a visitor.

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