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clean whites after a bath, shave & shampoo! - That I shall write to you 
tonight in ink. _ 
Oi! what a miserable night last night! They [[insertion]] A (mosquitoes) 
[[/insertion]] came into my net faster than I could kill them with a 
flashlight & at last I had to give up trying. Willy & the others couldn't 
even keep them out with tapa & before midnight the whole crowd moved 
across the island & slept in the limestone [[mjs?]]! At 4[[underlined]] 
[[superscript]] 00 [[/superscript]] [[/underlined]] AM. I sought the medicine 
chest for citronella. The rats were having a field day in the leaf shelter & 
I killed 3 [[strikethrough]] before [[/strikethrough]] using a geology 
hammer before the others decided to flee. If I only could have gotten 
[[underlined]] one more [[/underlined]] it would have evened the score of 
the night before! I took a sweet little revenge in smashing their skulls! I 
[[strikethrough]] f [[/strikethrough]] brought them proudly forth to the 
captain as he prepared the morning 
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oven but he reckoned he wouldn't cook 'em! 
We sailed at 7[[underlined]] [[superscript]] 00 [[/superscript]] 
[[/underlined]] AM & had a lazy day under a cloudless sky 
[[strikethrough]] un [[/strikethrough]] on the gently heaving boo-zum of 
the Pacific. Anchored here a little after 3 [[underlined]] [[superscript]] 00 
[[/superscript]] [[/underlined]] this afternoon. Wind impossible for 
Yangasa' at that late hour. 
The captain is a funny fellow. If he has to "pump ship" his daughter's 
close proximity doesn't bother him - he just faces the ocean & lets go! 
[[insertion]] A wherever he happens to be [[/insertion]] He breaks wind on 
occasion with a tremendous blast & then laughs like hell! I feel rather 
sorry for the daughter. Nobody talks to her. She just sits & looks - or 
covers up & sleeps. Today she got her sulu caught in the base of the 
mast as we shifted sail. She just looked at the sulu as the Captain 
yelled. Finally he gave the sulu a yank & tore it loose. Then the daughter 
just 
[[left margin vertically]] The captain cannot walk much because of large 
open cracks on the soles of his feet. Willy says he needs a shot of "606"! 
[[/margin]] 
HARRY LADD - DIARY AND FIELD NOTES, 1 934 - VOL. 2 
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