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Cheerio - & I hope to find a good coral fauna for you here. I'll "kill it" if I 
do! 
Harry. 
P.S.- 
Ed, I certainly feel [[underlined]] good [[/underlined]] tonight! You don't 
know tiresome those "rotten" limestones became! Tonight I've been 
wrapping fossils, plotting, etc & enjoying every moment in spite of a 
badly swollen upper left eyelid. (I think I'm about due for a change of 
glasses & shall have an examination when I get home. Meanwhile I 
surely am using up the boracic acid - three days now) 
Willy is lecturing away about "one-shelled animals" & Foye & Agassiz & 
our trip - to a [[underline]] packed house [[/underline]]! Its Sunday but 
[[underline]] two [[/underline]] bowls of yangona are going strong - a 
thick grog for me & a weaker mixture for the local drinkers. Willy isn't 
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taking any - says he is "too full offish" - 1 think it is [[underline]] words 
[[/underline]] he is full of! - bless him! 
By the way, no more fish for some time. We brought mothe fish with us - 
those here are [[underline]] all [[/underline]] poison! - Take it back - I've 
just had Willy check this story with the local people. They claim that only 
the fish from the western point are poison. Never-the-less I aim to go 
easy. I've seen the results offish poison in Namuka & I don't want it! 
The house is now half emptied. Only we old topers are left! 
Mlula mlalavu - ! 
H. 
P.P.S.- Have just been having a long pow-wow & we now plan on 
stopping at Aiwa on our way to Lakemba. These 
HARRY LADD - DIARY AND FIELD NOTES, 1934 - VOL. 2 
Transcribed and Reviewed by Digital Volunteers 
Extracted Oct-11-2015 06:35:03 
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