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Samuel Mafileo, one of the Tongans who carried the flag to Falcon. He 
is the engineer on the [[underline]] Tui Toga [[/underline]] & his brother 
George (who sailed with Beck) is mate. Both, by the way, are relatives of 
the Queen of Toga - it was all explained at length to me but I'm still 
slightly bewildered! -- near as I can figure it they are 2nd or 3rd cousins. 
Samuel is out of reading matter so I gave him a [[underline]] Geographic 
[[/underline]]. 
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Also gave corncob pipe to Samuel & George & sent one out to Fotu. 
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He promises to send us rock samples from some of the volcanic islands 
of Toga. He claims there are "soapstone" on certain of the Haapai 
islands (I doubt it - no?) & will send some of them too. He located 
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the recent eruption as follows 
[[image: map of landmarks]] 
x Late 
x reef 
* reef (scene of eruption) 
[[upwards arrow]] N 
x Lighthouse 
x Ofolanya 
X Hanpai 
Tofua [[downward arrow]] 
I heard much gossip of Tongans the Johannsun, Powells, Nielsin, & 
Charlie Hama are all thriving on Eua according to latest reports. Tonga 
is not hard hit by the depression (at least not too hard). She is shipping 
bananas on a large scale & the government has 
Harry Ladd - Diary and field notes, 1934 - Vol. 1 
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