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[[underlined]] more [[/underlined]] naked hermits whose houses had 
broken open! So you see Ed, I am really learning the Fijian language! 
Off shortly after 800 in a swell breeze for Yangasa Levu. Tacked up to 
the south end & landed on its rocky shores. Willy & I explored the 
"terrace" - which proved to be an elevated rim surrounding a flat 10-15' 
above sea level. - Cracked many a rotten limestone and THEN [[circled, 
underlined]] Orbitoids [[/circled]] Swell ones, Ed. Some lenticular ones & 
then some like [[Thikombra?]] [[arrow]] [[Image; pencil sketch]] 
[[left margin, insertion]] [[arrow]] also [[underlined]] discoid smaller 
[[/underlined]] forams - well preserved [[/insertion]] 
I then planned to climb the cliff - 390 feet. Willy frankly says that he is 
not keen on cliff climbing (after yesterday) so I left him behind, though 
he would have tried it. Made the top OK & [[left margin, insertion]] Willy 
said "I don't think so - you make that, Doctor"! [[/insertion]] 
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then climbed up & down - up & down - [[insertion]] A along the rim 
[[/insertion]] to the highest point. The seaward views alone were worth 
the climb - 3 atolls & a barrier [[underlined]] in one picture [[/underlined]] 
- and it was dead low tide as I took them. If [[underlined]] only 
[[/underlined] they are good! (Had trouble with my shutter several days 
ago - have got it working again but I have to take off the plate over the 
"setting" rig every now & then). 
The views to landward were not as open as I had hoped. But the 
[[underlined]] south [[/underlined]] rim 
[[left margin, insertion]] [[arrow]] Rock on top pure white, crystalline & 
some coral -- no forams [[/insertion]] 
& the [[underlined]] west [[/underlined]] rim are narrow & dip sharply to 
an interior basin. I climbed a tree & saw quite a bit of both. I got one 
view of a part of the NE side & it also dips inward, [[underlined]] So 
[[/underlined]] the island has a high rim but whether or not (as in 
Tuvutha) there is more than one basin I don't know. It doesn't matter 
much for our purposes. Here is a [[underlined]] remnant [[/underlined]] 
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