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It has been Impossible for us to get anything but the most prosaic 
of canned foods, condiments, cookies etc. on shore from our cook, and 
the whole ship operates a bit resentful of the scientific party on shore. It 
Is hs though they did not want us to escape from their discipline and 
routines and accommodations on board. 
We have now only to read the skin tests and depart with WBCs and 
hemoglobins now done on the whole populace today along with thin and thick 
smears, we have little more to do here, for we have not yet set up for 
other studies very well. Bacteriological cultures, stools for ova and 
parasites, biochemical studies and X-rays and EKG we may get to on other 
Islands, but not here. 
The village goes to sleep early, even on these moonlit nights. Thus, 
the children's playing has abiniptly stopped at 8:30 p.m. and there Is 
no more rowdy playing or rough house among the small children — all have 
gone to their own houses Irrere all Is quiet!! They tell stories, converse 
and listen to transistor radios. 
The well of brackish water dug high on the eastern beach to a depth 
almost to the sea — or deeper — Is used as a source of brackish water for 
food and cooking and for other water uses where brackish water will serve. 
This well, called "Letup", Is lined with stone walls against collapse of 
Its sides. I took pictures of this and also of the clean white lime made 
by burning layers of coral between layers of hard wood and heating It 
to high temperature to make the llme.< It Is this locally made 
lime, together with sand and water that Is used to make the setting-mortar 
for Islandconstructlon, such as the fine new church and the catchment 
basin at the hamlet of Tlsmlrlu (Tesmarlk) , now being built . 
After first finding three, later six, Jean Guiart has toured the island 
thoroughly to find a total of nine dwelling sites with houses different from 
the compact village of Lavolvol. He finds that the land Is all inherited 
through the father and that status and social Importance Is largely a 
matter of land ownership. However, marriage Is governed by maternal line 
and "origin" Is traced through this maternal line. 
With Leonard Wotuel, a 2 year old son of Baton Fals, bled today we 
have left only one current Merlg resident unbled: a baby of less than 
1 year: John Margaret, son of Deacon Charlie Noah. 
We are having a hard time keeping records of all the odd observations 
and facts we encounter. Thus, I find it necessary to use these journal 
pages for data which would better fit Into our work notebooks on each 
village and Island, but they are not yet so organized as to be ready for 
this. Our Master Bleeding List Is definitive and so are our Master Records 
of Physical Examinations on all patients bled. However, most of us have 
not yet started notebooks for odd observations not destined for our 
personal Journals. This obviously creates a problem. The journals must 
obviously suffer as literary exercises as a result. In recent years this 
has also been a problem In New Guinea. I may take shortly to keeping 
separately a Notebook and a Journal I 
