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The villages, in clockwise sequence are: Veverau (Koimarama) , 
Lotawan, Tukwetap, Napo'e (Nau'que), Liwotupwei, Tasmate. There are now 
some five hundred people on the island, or just a few under that, where- 
as a census only two years ago enumerated about four hundred. Lotawan 
has about one hundred inhabitants, and Veverau about seventy-one. Tukwetap 
is the largest village, with "many children", we are told. 
Our two hour trip here from Vureas Bay was over gentle swells, but the 
Alpha Helix bucked the seas, and almost everyone, including Stanley, was 
seasick in short order. 
The children of Veverau are timid and withdrawn on our sudden arrival, 
and I have not succeeded in allaying their apprehensions as readily as I 
am accustomed to do so. Thus, it seems as though some word about our 
arrival may have preceded us and set the pattern. This, I would credit 
to the "help" that the dressers on the M.V. Rocinante on their BCG circuit 
had given us, telling the people of our coming. I always feel it is better 
to arrive unannounced and unprepared for, and that all such warnings or 
preparations result in increased anxiety. 
Veverau Village, Mota Island October 7, 1972 
All eight of our scientific party, plus Stanley, are on shore for the 
night in this village. The Alpha Helix arrived from Port Paterson, Vanua 
Lava at about 8 a.m. and our party became complete. The ship stood offshore 
for about a half hour, having sent word in that the Captain wanted to 
anchor again at Vanua Lava. I thus asked to have more antibiotic eye drops 
brought in, along with the return to the ship of eye swabs from a child 
with acute conjunctivitis of three days’ duration, which was not purulent, 
for freezing and virus and bacterial isolations. We also sent in a culture 
of pus from a boil on a man with several furuncles. The ship took these 
and rushed over the quiet seas for Vanua Lava. It would have been an easy 
landing from children’s canoes all day long from the shore under Veverau, 
or under Lotawan. Instead, the Captain insisted on pulling away and we 
have no support from the ship today or tomorrow, until I call for its 
return. We need now to get the blood specimens we took today on board, 
but I shall try to ask for it by 8 a.m. tomorrow. 
Paul and Francolse ran a clinic here in Veverau for a couple of hours 
this morning, and then joined us at the school below Lotawan, at a site 
called Nwapaga (Nwapuka) , where we bled some school children, and later 
with Francolse and Paul helping, we examined them, completed heights and 
weights, color blindness tests, finger prints, and Identity photographs 
of many of them. In the meawhlle, in another temporary schoolroom at the 
Nwapaga site, we held a clinic for all those with medical complaints, 
where Ray and Richard kept busy all morning and much of the afternoon. 
At mid-day, I was exhausted and so were the others. They thus agreed with 
me to stop work for two to three hours, and I went off down to the beach 
area below Nwapaga, called Wolanga, with twenty of the school boys. They all 
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