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Steven Tsai, Steven Rangley, Veronica, Juliette, Erema, Supei, May 
and Cinderella had all become rather close friends with me. Steven is 
the coyest, most anxious to have my attention and yet most embarrassed 
by it publically. He is too old to accept a fanning interest in him 
unequivocally as do Steven Rangley and Supei and yet he is surely 
enchanted to awaken such an interest. 
The people asked us to pause while they all sang a parting song for 
us and then we carried all of our supplies down to the Lematsar landing. 
Losolava Plantation, Gaua September 27, 1972 
We have Leslie from Merig Island on board as our aid to finding anchor- 
age here and as our guide. Last night we brought three men of Merig on 
board to see the ship. The calm sea has brought us to an almost prosaic 
New Hebridean shore of Gaua, almost indistingushable from miles of shore 
on Espiritu Santo, Malekula, Pentecost and other large islands. It is 
not an exciting island up close, but the large distances promise adventure 
inland and we know that the huge crater lake is located high up the slopes. 
On Merig the people told me that there was one U.S. Military sea 
plane landing on the lake during the World War II years. I am suprised 
to hear of only one such landing. On Rennell the Lake was a regular 
Catalina Base, I am told. The people tell of a plane that crashed in 
the sea off Gaua with a surviver and a death, and confirm only one Catalina 
landing on the Lake during the War. 
We find strange immigrants here on Gaua including two Torres Islanders! 
Namosari village ; 
Steven (Etiene) 
wife: Joyce 
from Wallace Islands 
from Loh Island, Torres Islands 
Harry M-70 
wife: Mary 
from Tegua, Torres Islands 
from On tar village, Gaua Island 
Tarasag village of Gaua (Namasari-Lebot-Tarasag Linguistic Group) 
September 27, 1972 
Don and I are staying the night at Tarasag beside the Gaua Junior 
Primary School, with Moses, son of Paterson and Mary, and Jackie (Sakius) , 
son of John Noel and Salome, both of Merig but residents of the Merig 
people’s Gaua village of Lemonmon just ten minutes walk from the school. 
They are both drawing pictures with the colored pencils, as I type between 
them. We have just returned to Tarasag from Lemonmon, where we have had 
a fine filling meal of sweet potato, canned corned beef, and Milo. Jean 
