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Dick Raucllffe, another 15 year old like David and a 7th grader like 
both David and Stanley has been the third most helpful and intimate lad 
with me on Mota Lava. Moken Festus, a 12 year old and 6th grader has also 
been helpful. 
I got permission to bring these three boys plus Frank 
and on board to see the ship, and Don and Judy took them 
around the ship while we were looking at patients on Rah. Before they 
had completed their tour, which made them wide-eyed with wonder, Don 
relates, Stanley and David were sea sick and vomiting. This phenomenon 
of Pacific Islanders being often and severely seasick, I have noted in 
Micronesia and the British Solomon Island Protectorate in the past. Most 
of my Island boys were seasick on shipboard field trips with me around 
the Outer Islands of the Yap District. 
Our party is operating well, but Judy and Paul tend to be moody and 
I have hints that they may both leave us at Santa Cruz if they can. I 
shall be very disappointed if this is so, but I shall not object. Jean 
Guiart has a November deatline to make in Paris and thus he too may have 
to leave. I am hoping that he can stay at least for Tikopia and Anuta 
and will plan to try to get him off thereafter from Santa Cruz or 
elsewhere, if necessary. I am sorry not to have filled our two empty 
scientific berths, and wish that Joe and Nancy were with us! Michael's 
absence is also a real loss. However, the hard work and loyalty of Dick, 
Ray, Paul, Fran^oise, Judy, Don and Jean, and Walter's untiring help have 
made a great accomplishment already. If only we can sustain our perfor- 
mance for the British Solomon Islands Protectorate part of the expedition! 
Judy has taken on immense jobs of boring clerical work which she 
knows will determine the success of the expedition. John often helps. 
Everyone has pitched in vigorously to the huge job of spearating sera 
from clots, I have not done my share of the laboratory work since the 
others have done it for me. In dur course they will defer and let me 
at it. If only they can all be enthusiastic about the trip and remain 
so through the important British Solomons adventure. 
Walter's severely infected foot sores which in 24 hours had become 
acute tropical ulcers with lymphangitis, edema, pain and redness and in 
48 had already cratered necrosis, have finally responded to Ampicillin 
prescription. He is much better today. He got the scratches climbing 
a coconut tree at teh Tarasag school to put up a high antenna for our 
shore radio station. 
The walkie-talkie shore to ship radios have been a great aid on this 
trip and without them we should have often been in trouble. 
The problem of meeting people like Stanley Webb and William Tule 
who give their all to me after only a half day of acquaintance and who 
stick by me loyally, even enduring teasing and jibes from their elders 
and jealous quips from their peers, working diligently for me for days, 
and then suddenly leaving tehm so that after a half dozen more islands, 
their loyalty and devotion becomes blurred in memory into only a nostalgia 
for the South Pacific and its people, is a serious one. They want more 
