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Pago Pago 
...Little change since my last visit in and out of this airport. The 
enormous size of the Samoan men and women remains the most striking feature 
when one is more accustomed to the gaunt Melanesians. A few youths have the 
"wild man" appearance and belligerent manner of Mat's Samoan friend, who 
rarely has a greeting and does not deign to ask permission to use the record 
player, library, desk, etc., or even the bed when he is at our home and a 
stranger to most of us, the product more of mainland U.S. than of Samoa. 
Perhaps the islands may again civilize them? No mail service, but the airline 
takes letters for Yavine, Joe Wegstein and Bobby to mall for me. 
Nandi, Fiji September 13, 1972 
I did not call the NIH, although I had planned to do so. As an after- 
thought, I asked if American Airlines would cover my overnight accommodations; 
they did, at the Fiji Mocambo Hotel. 
Nandi airport and the surrounding Togoa and Travel Lodge and Macombo 
Hotel are little different from such international stopover points through- 
out the world, and the taxi driver warns me of tourists getting fleeced and 
robbed in the Nandi night clubs and on the streets. A fex'/ Fijian porters 
and desk clerks at the hotel are the extent of the local color. The decor 
might just as well be Trader Vic's in the Capital Hilton. .••• orange juice 
for breakfast is canned. Two German Lufthansa men, who arrived with me, 
quickly phone for accommodations at Korolevu Hotel and take a taxi there 
(eighteen dollars) .. .very wise and well informed indeed. 
I mailed letters to Tamel, Mororui and Mat (c/o the NINDS laboratory 
in Guam), and to Joe Wegstein (a second letter) from the airport; now we 
are off for Vila. 
