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Kwangrow, the name given to us by Archdeacon Rawcliffe, is the ground 
name for the church and festivity site at St. John Lewetnok. Vatvangar is 
the name of the soccer field below the village. Anj angaula is the hamlet 
near the soccer field. Thus, as everywhere in Melanesia, there are dozens 
of place names to each village site. 
Our reception on Merelava has been very friendly and the festivities 
have been extremely enjoyable. We could not have expected as fine a welcome 
on any other day of the year. We now know the villagers rather well, and 
should have a good day performing physical examinations, measuring, bleeding, 
finger printing, photographing, etc. tomorrow. 
Just after landing, and while awaiting the second trip of the shore 
boat, I shook hands with the only small boy who was with the men on the rocks. 
I found my hand grasping a right hand with only two digits and grossly de- 
formed, with congenital loss of three of the fingers. I asked quickly if 
this were traumatic or from a burn, but was assured by the dresser, who is 
from St. Paul's, that it was congenital. This brings me to yet another case 
of reduction deformities, which I have spotted with Roger Greenhough at Vila, 
here in the New ebrides. It thus appears to be a genetic matter in the 
region, perhaps rather than a toxic reaction to attempted abortion using 
quinine or chloroquine, which I had suspected at first. It requires much 
further analysis, and this we must turn to. The boy with this defect is 
John Bol, a seven year old son of Martin Witinbir and Elizabeth Ruis, both 
from St. Steven Tasmat. 
After the departure of the shore boat from Makundungon, below St. John, 
I climbed climbed back tc Kw’angrow; a dozen St. Paul's boys walked back to their 
village with me at dusk, while we watched the Alpha Helix cruise slowly 
along the coast, far from the cliffs of the shore far below us. Along the 
way I got another gift of a laplap made of sweet potato and a nut called 
This laplap is called lukunbud it . The girls from St. John gave it 
to us, along with coconut fetched from the trees by the small boys. The loss 
of coconuts, hurled down to the trail and often bounding down the hill, was 
great, and their value seems not to be suffieiently high to run down and 
retrieve them. 
The boys who accompanied me about St. John's were bright and a very in- 
formative group of schoolboys. All were from St. John Lewetnok. 
Class in School 
Martin Ton 
Dunstan Phillip 
Judah Tingris 
Henry Ofking 
Nelson Kanal 
Edmond Rawcliffe 
Kuba Mak 
Mak Mul 
13 
12 
12 
7 
7 
8 
5 
4 
6 
4 
3 
2 
2 
2 
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