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I found that the boys had built a fire for a lovo but that meant a long wait 
so we put it out & cast off - drifting on around the western island. Its 
features much like eastern one. I went to sleep as we drifted & only 
awoke as we scraped over the reef. 
The short trips from Auivi barrier to that of Lakemba was even rougher 
than in the morning. Our outrigger traveled high wide & handsome & 
once or twice all 24 feet of it jumped clear of the water at once. We got 
wet, my bedding got wet & the cases of [[rechu?]] & food below deck got 
soaked [[left margin, insertion]] [[arrow]] my shredded raincoat kept the 
movie camera dry [[/left margin]] 
[but nothing was injured & all is now dried out]. As we sailed over 
Lakemba's barrier that Jesi somehow slacked the sail rope instead of 
hauling & the wave that 
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[[left margin]] The Europeans would hardly believe me when I told them I 
had come by canoe today - but they [[underlined]] had [[/underlined]] to 
believe me! I'm no angel - 1 didn't fly over! [[/left margin]] 
carried us along went on without us. The scraping & bumping did no 
harm, however, & we were soon into the clear. We were then off 
Nukunuku & had to drift all the way to the point next to Tambon. 
Anchored off the village about 4:00. 
So ends 200 miles of canoe travel! Paid off the Captain & the crew with 
a bonus to each. - and brought Jesi a new pair of shorts. 
He is the only man I have ever seen with both sides of his ass out at the 
same time! 
Oh, yes and as we furled the sail [[underlined]] after [[/underlined]] 
clearing Lakemba's reef Jesi - lame, deaf & dumb, Jesi - hung on to the 
boom as the sail flapped & was pulled overboard! Everybody laughed 
like hell as he scrambled 
HARRY LADD - DIARY AND FIELD NOTES, 1934 - VOL. 2 
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