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Captain Buchanski of the Rocinante is from , Poland, 
while his wife is English. I will try to learn more about him. He is a 
soft-spoken, mild-mannered, gentle man, whose story would be very inter- 
esting, I am sure. The five dressers on the BCG immunization cruise to 
the Banks and Torres are giving BCG to children under three years of age, 
and triple antigen to school-aged children, and tetanus toxoid to the 
older children. Greken Morris is the leader of the team, which includes 
two girl and three male dressers. 
Port Vila, Efate September 16, 1972 
Toara Kali met Judy and me on the steep hill going up to the new post 
office, and explained our chance encounter with "I am doing nothing but 
looking for you!" He is a fine lad of about eighteen to twenty years and 
is still in the PMH dresser’s school on Vila island, with three years more 
of training before him. He has been on board most of the morning, helping 
us with the unpacking and storing of supplies. I am finally leaving all 
this to Raymond, Richard, and Judy, and doing less of it myself. 
Our supply of liquid nitrogen is short; we have only one reservoir 
full since the four new twenty liter reservoirs are misplaced and are not 
in Brisbane, where I thought we had sent them long ago. 
A cable from Michael tells me that Wendy has had very serious surgery, 
but is now well, and that he must also move from his house in early November, 
and ending the cable with "O Lares". Thus, I cannot really expect him, nor 
is Steve Wiesenfeld planning on coming' — so, both Michael and Stephen are out 
and I am hoping now to get Nancy and Joe Gibbs to reconsider and join us in 
Santa Cruz instead. 
Roger Qreenhough’ s wife drove their car into an iron post last night 
and she is only slightly Injured, but the car is a full wreck. In spite of 
all these problems, Roger is still rounding up all our still-undelivered cargo 
and we are not yet all unpacked. Everyone is working well, while I do better 
coordinating than helping at this point. The immense job of sorting and 
arranging supplies for effective laboratory work has kept all six of us 
(Walter Schneider doing a good part of it) busy all day. Walter is the 
Scripps Institute laboratory technician who is assigned to alternate 
expeditions on the Alpha Helix , acting as a trouble shooter, liaison, and 
technical adviser to the non-Scripps Institute scientific staff on each ex- 
pedition. He counts as one of our scientific staff, not as a member of the 
twelve-man crew, which includes the Captain. Thus, we shall leave Vila with 
eight ’scientists’ (five M.D. ’s) and twelve crew members. I have been wildly 
hoping for four more to join us: Stephen, Michael, Joe, Don Rubinstein, but 
now all looks very unlikely. 
The Rocinante sailed yesterday, and the Euphrosyne II may head for the 
Banks and Torres shortly after our departure. This may provide a chance for 
Dr. Bowdin of PMH to join us for a week by leaving to meet us on the Euphrosyne 
II , and later leaving us on a second encounter with the ship. It is a shame 
