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If all goes well, we shall work here tomorrow, stay here tomorrow night, 
and move to Kuru on the southwest coast the next day, finishing there in a 
half day, to go on to Mota Lava that afternoon or evening, or next morning. 
I am most worried about Bob Kirk’s availability and willingness to handle 
all the specimens we shall be sending him. The first batch of 300 is al- 
ready off to him, and we have another 200 ready to go. Most important, is 
whether the Revco operates well and preserves the red cell enzymes intact. 
All the colts have been frozen promptly after separation on the Alpha Helix . 
Operating temperature is about -500C. 
Kuru Village, Gaua Island September 29, 1972 
An expedition to Kuru.' 
Solotis Worlri, a young man of 20-25 from Kuru, still unmarried and 
living at Namasarl where he works for the Anglican Priest, Father James 
Mwera from Aoba, is on board with us to sail at 5 a.m. down the east 
coast of Gaua around to Kuru on the south west coast. I have picked 
Kuru for Aesthetic reasons — as a matter of symmetry — for we could have 
picked almost any other of the Gaua groups. We may really need a guide 
to find our way into the anchorage and to locate the village and people 
for us. 
Today, everyone arrived at Tarasag prepared to hike into the interior 
to visit the Crater Lake which dominates the center of the island and is almost 
1000 feet above sea level. I told them that the better trail was from 
Losalava to the lake. The trail from Tarasag is an uncut track, closed by 
the hurricane. No one here admits to having taken it this year. Thus, 
our team decided to return to the Alpha Helix with all of our supplies 
and to Immediately set forth for Losolava and Namasarl village from which 
they would hike in with a Namasarl guide. We have various reports that 
the walk is two to four hours long. Nicholas, the teacher from Mota,’ decided 
to go with them. Judy could not because of small tropical ulcers on her 
feet and some edema at one side and Frangolse decided not to go, wisely 
for her enormous ulcer from her ankle-level vacination is still not fully 
healed I She started to the tropics from France with an enormous Parisian 
"tropical ulcer" with central gangrenous necrosis and deep pitting I 
Judy, Frangolse, Jean and I, therefore, stayed on at Tarasag to finish 
our study of the people here and the others took off leaving us only 
the minimum of supplies we still needed. Judy did the Identity photos over, 
found trouble again with too bright a background for our autom-atlc exposure 
and I did them a third time with my rapid "lining up" system. Judy stuck 
it out to the last finger and palm print and although I think she was 
not feeling well she worked right on. Fran^oise, Jean and I left her at 
the Tarasag school and went over to Lomonmon wfiere we measured heights 
and weights on all the people there and I did heart, lung, and abdomen 
