 In the meantime , the transport destroyers arrived off of two pick @-@ up locations at Cape Esperance and Kamimbo at 22 : 40 and 24 : 00 respectively . Japanese naval personnel ferried the waiting troops out to the destroyers in barges and landing craft . Rear Admiral <unk> Koyanagi , second @-@ in @-@ command of the Reinforcement Unit , described the evacuees : " They wore only the remains of clothes that were so soiled their physical deterioration was extreme . Probably they were happy but they showed no expression . Their digestive organs were so completely destroyed , we couldn 't give them good food , only porridge . " Another officer added that , " Their buttocks were so emaciated that their anuses were completely exposed , and on the destroyers that picked them up they suffered from constant and uncontrolled diarrhea . " 
