Locality:
Personnel:
At Sea and Rongelap Atoll
Date:
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August 24,
Monda
Same 14
Weather:
1964
¥
Showers
Water conditions:
Calm
Anchor was raised at 1200 midnight and the ship cleared
Bikini channel at 1214 A.M, and headed for Rongelap.
flat calm,
The sea was
except for a few ground swells we might as well have
been in harbor.
Arrived off Rongelap at dawn and anchored at 0930,
minute Capt.
Davis had said we would.
Rongelap was alive with
a hundred or more children swarming the beach.
and visited with the new magistrate,
the exact
We went ashore
Edmil Edmon.
Gifts were
given; the suit should fit the magistrate who is my size or
slightly larger.
His mother had died so he was occupied with
family problems.
Breadfruit,
Pandanus,
and coconut samples requested by Held
from marked trees were obtained by S.A.
Bevilo
($7.50).
Gessel
and Billings spent the day fertilizing young coconut trees with
artificial fertilizer and measuring the growth of the young
trees.
Samples of foliage were removed from trees for further
assay.
Sneddon and Williams had a field day.
one was photographed and interviewed.
native songs--I hope it will ke useful.
Everything and every-
A recording was made of
fy.