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of the island. These two sophisticating influences together with the 
school adjacent to the village make for a high degree of skill in English 
and a great sophistication. The children are all disappointed that we 
do not bring shore radios, microscopes and tape recorders. 
However, visitors are rare enough so that each of us has a fawning 
group of youngsters surrounding us, and there are plenty to go around. We 
shall start work early tomorrow, and try to finish and be off for Mota 
Lava by noon hour. However, this is a very beautiful site, some several 
hundred feet above the steep shores of black volcanic sand and I would 
like very much to be here for many days. There are far fewer mosquitoes 
than we found last night at Moslna village, which is coastal and near 
a swampy area. 
Jean has helped trace out further details of the extensive geneologles 
of the albinos from here and from Mosina which I worked out last night 
in spite of the mosquito menace. The family of four albinos, the last 
one is one of two boy twins, as is one who is darkly pigmented, the other, 
a full albino, is here. 
Most of the 74 children at the school are from Vetumboso village 
itself. There are three boys from Moslna, and six boys and two girls 
from Wosoga and four boys and eight girls from Vatarata village. The 
new school is to be constructed a hundred yards or so below the current 
school site, at a site called Sanlang. Two Australian carpenters have 
been here to supervise the construction, but they have gone back to Santo 
for supplies. All students from other islands than Vanua Lava are back 
on their home Islands. 
Father Gregory and other informants list Vetumboso (about 200 inhabi- 
tants) , Wosanga (about 100 inhabitants) , and Kwakea (about 24 inhabitants) 
as all speaking one language, while Vatarata (with about 100 inhabitants) 
speaks ,a_secQhd_language and Mosina (about 68 Inhabitants), yet a third. 
The small village of Kwanglav at Prot Paterson has only about 20 people 
and uses the Motalava language. The whole island of Vanua Lava now 
has 700 inhabitants. Father Gregory says. He adds that he found recently 
some 120 from the island living in Santo, and there are a number living 
and working in Noumea. 
We have been too constantly at work and without suffieclent rest to 
remain at our best. In spite of this the Captain has some wierd idea of 
preferring everyone on shipboard doing laboratory work which under any 
conditions would be meaningless, without far more and better field work 
and clinical medicine on shore. He resents the use of shore boats for 
the party to amuse themselves on shore in the evening and wants the shore 
night tied in with the work. That it obviously is, in that every bit of 
socializing is an important part of liason with the people with whom we 
are working, and that it is more likely at dances and song fests, feasts 
and strolls arm-in-arm with the kids on the beaches that we learn the most 
important matters about illness, traditional medicine, attitudes pertinent 
to reproductive behavior, disease transmission, nutrition, marriage patterns, 
and all else that pertains to health, medicine and human biology, our 
