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under the chin at night but as I am a short fellow they only hit the top of 
my head! 
Willy is having a little lali & sticks made for me here. Jane & I shall use 
them this winter in summoning our friends the Hoffmusters to dinner! Am 
also having coconut cups made. Have already been presented with a 
new yangona strainer so prepare for the "Fiji party"! I'll bring a bag of 
yangona from Suva. I [[underline]] hope [[/underline]] Jane likes 
yangona as well as I do -- but that's asking quite a bit of even so grand a 
bride as Jane, isn't it? 
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But I shall not heat it 20 minutes! 
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Willy is looking forward 
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to "our trip to Vitilun to see those cannibals!" -- [[underline]] So am I! 
[[/underline]] But that's some time ahead yet & it doesn't do to think too 
much about it. Thank God there is plenty of work or I surely would get 
ants! 
For your consolation I do hereby confess that I left a hammer on an 
outcrop today! -- aim to get it tomorrow. [Later -- got it!] 
Collected 3 bottles & 2 sacks of land shells for Cooke & had Willy nab 
two tremendous fat-bodied spiders for your Rochester friend. 
-- And that, boys & girls, is all the news today. I will settle down with 
some cigarettes to do a little serious Saturday-night yangona drinking. 
Take it easy -- 
Harry 
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Harry Ladd - Diary and field notes, 1934 - Vol. 1 
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