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intricate piece of tapa -- also a boy spreading copra out to dry. 
Willy is certainly a head man in this town! Chicken again tonight. Two 
men have the job of providing us with vegetables, etc. -- one comes in 
the AM & one in the PM -- Shades of Notha & the days of my 
"starvation"! 
The copies of the [[underline]] Geographic [[/underline]] that I brought 
along will, like my pack of cards, soon be ready for the "glass case"! We 
quite often wish you were here, Ed! Here's a bowl of yanjana to you! 
[[inserted in margin with arrow to previous paragraph]] (Willy cut a fine 
walking stick for you in Lakemla.) 
[[/end inserted note]] 
Harry 
P.S. - 
Lest you forget -- 2 months 
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from tonight is my wedding night -- so do you drink something-or-other 
to me! 
cheers -- 
H. 
P.P.S. 
thank God I bought a Flit [[?]] gun! Few mosquitoes & house flies here 
but there are countless numbers of tiny non-biting flies that swarm 
around the lights & mess up the table. I cover the map, use the gun & 
they fall like snow! then I have a few minutes on a clean sheet. 
The evening grows old -- time to join the floor gang for the last few 
rounds -- before going [[underline]] temporarily [[/underline]] to sleep! 
H. 
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Harry Ladd - Diary and field notes, 1934 - Vol. 1 
Transcribed and Reviewed by Digital Volunteers 
Extracted Oct-11-2015 11:35:03 
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