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complains that it is too dark and will cost a fortune to light at the high 
local rates for electric power. 
Port Vila, Efate, New Hebrides September 15, 1972 
Tonar Peter, from Makuro island in the Shephards, walked tonight in the 
moonlight with Fran 9 oise, Raymond and Richard were given a long tour of the girls' 
dormitory at the Epangtuel school by the girls, who all had to touch Richard's 
full and tangled beard. 
One twenty liter, and four nine liter containers of liquid nitrogen 
arrived tod^ and they clearly will not survive for long. Thus we are not going 
to succeed in much freezing of tissues, unless I can dig up further liquid 
nitrogen resevoirs for delivery later in our trip... it looks unlikely. 
Kalafau, a sixteen year old boy, son of Michael, who as a much younger 
lad was my close companion at Makatea village on Emai island, came to the 
ship to visit me. I very much regreted the formalities and restrictions of 
my current role, which prohibit me from behaving naturally and truthfully 
with him. I was enormously pleased to see him again, and to have him recog- 
nize me. Chief Robert Makatea is still alive, they tell me. I have not yet 
been out to Vila island to see Toara Kali at PMH. However, we did greet 
and talk to Kaltipun as we passed through Pango village tonight. 
The Rocinante put out to sea for Santo this afternoon, and thence for 
Torres, and finally the Banks in a BCG campaign. There are five New Hebridean 
dressers (two are girls) , and no doctor on board. The captain is a Mr. Bu- 
chanski, a Polish man who has been twelve years in NewHabrldes. I have 
introduced my team of four others to Keith Woodward and Roger Greenbough, and 
and Arighi and we spent the whole evening with Patrice de Carfort. 
We found the bistro closed and went to the Aslatique bar and then to the I^e 
Saigonaise for a late supper, which was fine. We unpacked supplies for 
several hours and found most of the things we need. However, I have not yet 
seen the bleeding venules, nor the finger printing sets and am really worried, 
lest at the critical point of actually collecting data and specimens we lack 
the critical items. 
Franqoise gets along very well with Patrice; they have many friends in 
common. He blossoms forth with her stimulating questions and tells us more 
about his four years on Tahiti and in the Tuomotus and in Vietnam and 
He has had very wide experience and training in medicine and is a very well 
informed physician. In that Patrice is giving me hospitality and tending 
to our problems, I see less of Arighi than I would like to. He speaks 
better English than Patrice and in a bombastic way conceals much of what 
he is thinking. But he does have a real love for the New Hebrides and a 
strong attachment to the people, whom he seems to have served very well. 
