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And here's for a sundowner -- 
Willy has got the Primus roaring under more rice for we are having 
curried beef tonight (Oh, goody-goody!) 
I worked on cross-sections & did some writing in the morning. Surprising 
us all, the sun came out before noon so Willy & I took a canoe around 
the west horn of the bay & I tried some pictures to show bedding. More 
writing this afternoon (and more showers) and now the sun goes down -- 
and so does the yangona! I've just performed my nightly rite of drawing 
another red cross on the calendar. Today begins our third week on 
Namuka! The wind is now strong from the SW which is tough should 
anyone in Mothe by any remote possibility think of coming to Namuka. 
(heavy sarcasm!) Willy optimistically opines that the SW wind will bring 
more rain. 
Cheerfully yours, 
Harry 
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17 July 1934 
Today is our fourteenth day on this mad Island (Na muka) still waiting for 
one mad Canoe to come from [[Moce?]] but no sign of any sail yet. We 
have completed this mad island in nine days, but the rest of our five 
days here nothing doing but read all day. About 1 1 .30 a.m. I went out 
with Dr. Ladd on a Canoe to take some photograph of shore Bedding 
around the west horn came back & had Lunch & start on my Book again 
(reading) until 4.30 p.m. I start on preparing supper, a pot of Chinese 
Rice & Curried Beef. I hope this mad Canoe turned up tomorrow so we 
may shift over to another Lime stone Island. I am just about fed up with 
Namuka. 
Wm. M. [[Wainsfield?]] 
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Harry Ladd - Diary and field notes, 1934 - Vol. 1 
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