Locality: Personnel: . At Sea and Rongelap Atoll Date: Same 14 August 24, Monday 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, given; the exact Edmil We went ashore Edmon. Gifts were 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 be useful. Everything and every- A recording was made of