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Sunday May 24
Morning light clouds & hazy, but sun well out. The Schr. Nellie Edes leaves early in A.M. Capt Phillips thinks he would have had trouble if we had not come in. The whaleboat taken by Capt. Herendeen's deserters 1871 is hidden in the woods, and the natives told Capt Phillips cook that the six men were killed here. Baker & Noyes go ashore for astronomical work and get equal sextant altitudes of sun for time A.M. & P.M. Vertical [[symbol}] circummeridians for latitude. Astronomical azimuth by Theodolite No.97. At low water go ashore on the reef.  Find Orchidella borealis Siphonania thersites and little else 
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also a dens all over brown & white knobs. Schizothorus? Puncturella &c. Siphonaria eggs in [[image - drawing]] translucent with yellow specks. During P.M. & evening buy quite a number of ethnological articles. P.M. more or less cloudy. Wind light all day.

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