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went swimming and diving from a great coral rock called Illanna Kwoei 
(Ilianna Kbei) , all totally in the nude, and of this I got good pictures 
of body color, from partial with blond hair on down to brown skin and dark 
brown "normal” skin. 
Desmond Taptasom, a boy of ten in this village, of the blond hair, 
light-complexioned type, and very similar to his thirteen year old brother, 
Jonas Win, has helped me make a comfortable bed on the green dance ground 
beside the traditional ground drum, "Takpasaraf ", which lies in front of 
the very tastefully constructed church. We slept there under clear and 
very star-filled skies, and toward morning, responding to the diuretic 
efficiency of the six cups of lemon grass tea’ I had drunk earlier in the 
evening, I noted as fine a view of the Magellanic clouds as I have seen. 
Desmond and I counted only six stars in the Pleiades and watched Jupiter 
rise in the morning I It was a cold, windy, insect-free night and I enjoyed 
it greatly and rested well. Desmond and his brother, Jonas Win, are truly 
red-skinned and very blond-brunette-haired. In Mota Lava, Stanley Lias 
has very blond hair, which I wrongly attributed to peroxide at first. He 
is himself dark-skinned, yet grows very blond hair. There are several 
full albinos on the island, but it is again significant that they have 
blond hair and non-albino red skin. They are obviously people with a very 
deranged pigment metabolism, which runs in families. 
In the family of my small friends, Jonas Win and Desmond, is yet a 
younger brother, Cyrus, five years, and two older sisters, and all five are 
light red-skinned and dlrty-blond-haired children. This partial albinism 
may go with urinary DOPA excretion, as in the red-skinned trait in New 
Guinea, but I do not recall such blond hair in the usual New Guinea red 
skins of the Wabag area where they abound. The New Guinea albinos often 
have brown eyes and darker hair than the albinos we are seeing here in the 
Banks Islands. 
There is a feeble-minded girl with hyperlordosis and very strange 
gait. Her facial expression, slightly protruding tongue, and her gait, all 
suggest cretinism to me. 
The hurricane has taken down every old church on each island that 
we have visited, with only a few exceptions on Mera Lava. The crumbling 
cement foundations alone remain, with new temporary churches standing 
beside the old. 
I am somewhat ashamed to marvel and wonder, as a small boy, at each 
new island we succeed in finding and landing on, and each time we reembark 
from an island, our brief mission completed. I am very astounded and 
filled with awe as I stare back at the island site of our adventure re- 
ceding from us, another dream realized. It is an enchanting fairyland we 
have entered, and our adventure is more related to a fairy tale than to 
ordinary existence. 
Mota Lava and Vanue Lava are beautifully stretched across the horizon 
as viewed from Mota. 
