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crowd tonight & while I worked on the map Willy delivered an illustrated 
lecture on "Tuki-vatu Agassiz". 
Our sixth chicken arrived today! Am afraid I'm eating too much again! 
This afternoon the Chinaman invited me in for a smoke after my bath & 
later I presented him with a corn-cob pipe. He wanted to pay for it & was 
all Chinese smiles when I convinced him it was a present! 
Ho-hum! - time to finish the grog & stretch out on my creaking bed of 
slats. 
Harry 
P.S. 
Tell Ruth that if she ever invites Jane & Harry to dinner 
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this fall she must [[underline]] not [[/underline]] serve chicken. I have a 
feeling that after this trip I shall shudder every time I hear a rooster crow! 
H. 
Namuka, 
July 7th 
Dear Ed - 
Yesterday we left a canoe on the western side of the island so as to be 
all set for a good start on the NW coast today. We hiked off bright & 
early but were not able to complete the map. Wind & wave & current 
were against us & when the tide was two hours past ebb I had to quit. Its 
the most difficult stretch of coast I've ever tried to walk. There isn't 
enough of a nip to make a cat-walk in some places so the canoe had to 
put in constantly to ferry me across 
Harry Ladd - Diary and field notes, 1934 - Vol. 1 
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