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shall try to do much more. I [[underlined]] don't [[/underlined]] want to 
miss Oneata & Narian (those two "limestone" islands) for there I hope to 
get maps & fossils. - [[underlined]] We shall see [[/underlined]]. 
Anyway, Ed, my luck is "in" again & though it's clouding up now I'm still 
confident of a get-away tomorrow (to hell with the [[underlined]] Adi 
Tavanavanna [[/underlined]]- she [[underlined]] didn't [[/underlined] 
appear today!) 
I shall now close. We aim to sail at 600 which means that we leave here 
at 500 - which means that we arise at 400 AM! 
Cheerie - and add this to the "Hallelujah, I'm a bum!" jingler - 
"But you may get drowned - 
as the other folks do - 
How the HELL can I drown - 
when I'm [[underlined]] on a CANOE! [[/underlined]] Cheerio - ! Harry 
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Ngalingali, Kambara, 
July 20, 1934 
Dear Ed - 
And "By God here we are!" Actually sailed from Matandolo at 645 this 
morning. Partly cloudy but with a light fair wind. The "lokas" were on and 
so we had a long ground swell - otherwise nothing but "Hoffmeister 
waves" - i.e. what I [[underlined]] used to [[/underlined]] to call such, in 
the days before you became a real blue water sailor! We ran along the 
SW side if Wangara & crossed to Kambara. This passage, supposed to 
be the roughest in Lau, was quite calm today. The Fijians call it the "nai 
vathu ningase" (- "The old man's punch") but I guess the old fellow was 
taking a nap - he certainly didn't punch us so we could feel it. Below the 
deck the 
HARRY LADD - DIARY AND FIELD NOTES, 1934 - VOL. 2 
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