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Beom (Makion Bay) 
Kuru 
Language III 
Kwitivut 
Language IV 
Kwitigabu (Qetegaveg) 
On tar (Pusman - extinct) 
Language V 
Vatlis 
Language I 
Language I and Language II are mutually intelligible with the Merig and 
Merelava Languages, but the others are not. A place called Pusmanbi, 
formerly occupied, is now said to be deserted; Language I is said to be 
spoken there . 
Don and I are working more productively and quietly tonight than on 
any previous night. Moses and Sakius (Jackie) are helping us and drawing 
pictures, and the two "brata" of the two teachers (Agnes of Norah and Richard 
of Nicholas), are also with us. We have already copied out the information 
from the school registry and attendance records listing all 32 students, 
and thus we can save a great deal of recording time tomorrow, I hope. 
Paul, Judy, Richard, Ray and Fran^oise returned to the Alpha Helix 
late this afternoon for supper, hoping to return here with a shore boat, 
but it has become dark and they are not back. We cannot reach the ship 
with our portable radio, and thus we have no contact. All we can do is 
start work early tomorrow and hope that they will arrive soon thereafter 
to give us a hand. We have all the equipment here on hand to do all the 
examinations and work we need to do. It is a clear night, but without 
a full or nearly-full moon of our previous nights. The school provides 
chairs and tables for work by Coleman lamp, which makes good work easy. 
It is a good evening. 
Tarasag \d.llage, Gaua, Tarasag Junior Primary School September 28, 1972 
Only Jean Guiart and I are staying on the island tonight. The others 
have all gone back for supper and to separate off the 105 blood specimens 
we collected today, and to do the hemoglobins and white counts we took 
on the entire group of some 443 children at the school this morning. 
It has been a very successful day of work and the evening has ended wonder- 
fully, with Jean and I sharing a fine feast of laplap and special foods 
cooked for us at Lemonmon village. Everyone worked well and steadily all 
morning long, and yet, by mid-afternoon we had done so much we could relax, 
swim and play a bit with the kids. In late afternoon we went to Lemonmon 
village and bled another 62 people from there and Merelava people from 
further down the coast. We managed to bleed the 43 school children before 
the others arrived at 8:30 from the Alpha Helix in the 16 foot launch, 
which Paul operated. They brought far better food with them than the 
cook had given us on previous days, including turkey meat and Guyere 
cheese, raisins and powdered coffee cream. Thus, we were well fed both 
by the people and from the ship on shore today. Radio contact with the 
