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Table 1.
Description of Food Rations Collected at
Rongelap Island September 1959.
(Each sample is a 24-hour ration)
Sample
number
1
Contributor
Description of food items
Berberin
a)
Pandanus paste, boiled
rice and baked fish (mixed)
Paul
253
b) Partly baked bread dough
252
c) Bully beef sandwiches
195
with bully beef
Z
Wet wt.Total
grams
wt.dry
a) Coconut meat (green)
b) Pandanus "pie"
c) Baked fish
30
16
23
da)
20
Sardines,
canned
e) Boiled rice w/coconut
374.68
175.85
249
milk
3
No name
a)
Breadfruit, baked
4l
b) Coconut and bread
dough,
24
baked
c)
Bread
a)
b)
c)
da)
Coconut, ripe
1/2 papaya
Rice and fish (mixed)
Bread, local
dad) Bully beef
e) Ship's biscuit
£) Rice w/coconut milk,
boiled
4
5
Bwio
Altha
(coconut milk,
not saved)
a) Rice and fish mixed
b)
c)
Bread,
Rice
87.12
local
31
17
13
49
72
57
306
81
321.69
243
203.16
80
197