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our canoe at anchor, Willy, etc. If the film wasn't bad before you sealed it 
- we should have some good pictures. 
Before lunch ran traverse from top of highest point on this end of the 
island to village (elev. only 105 feet). The high point & the grassy hills 
near it are of tuffaceous limestone [[underlined]] very rich in forams 
[[/underlined]] & with some mollusks, worn corals, echinoids, etc. There 
[[margin, insertion]] [[arrow]] Where did the volcanic debris come from? 
has this island too been reduced by faulting? [[/insertion]] is a great deal 
of volcanic debris in the rock which explains the "volcanic vegetation." 
Found one coral [[underlined]] not a mold [[/underlined]] but badly worn - 
it leads me to hope for that coral fauna! One of the Pectins in 
[[underlined]] P. mirificus [/underlined]] Reeve, a rare Recent species of 
which I collected one specimen at 6 1/4 mile quarry (see my report if you 
have a copy). 
In the afternoon the Captain plugged some cloth into the canoe for a 
temporary stop-leak & we sailed out to the barrier 
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so I could finish the roll of color film. I had 40' left & used it all on the 
reef. Some views of the nigger-head landward zone & the balance in the 
marginal zone. Some of the waves should look like they are rising right 
into the camera! They certainly boiled under the tripod! I dried the tripod 
legs before folding and have oiled [[margin, insertion]] [[arrow]] could 
find no rich coral pools to allow for close-ups. [[/insertion]] it well so I 
don't think it will suffer. - Have now 5 rolls of film A [[insertion]] left 
[[/insertion]] - 4 of supersensitive & 1 color. 
Have not been able to get the bathing scene you wanted - no chance 
during our few hours in Lomaloma as we landed only just before nightfall 
& sailed at 7:30 AM. - no pools in any of the other villages I have visited. 
Nor have I been able to get a view showing how trees are spaced on a 
coconut plantation, 
HARRY LADD - DIARY AND FIELD NOTES, 1 934 - VOL. 2 
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