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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

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