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laughing and dutifully presented me with these nicely packaged feces and 
oat in the sun I made up stool suspensions of each with Paul’s help, 
with the tricky holding medium which requires the addition of KI to 
the awful mixture of merthiolate and formaldehyde with which we start. 
The younger children of four to eight years looked on with studied in- 
terest and amazement at these manipulations of their feces; while the 
older children revealed a much more stereotyped and extreme cultural bias 
in their embarrassed scatologically directed smiles and laughter, and at 
times truly coy embarrassment they clearly showed on presenting and 
watching the manipulations of this "shit party". 
Interestingly, the feces ranged from white through yellow to light 
brown and all are fibrous and pasty and none formed or hard or darki 
The bulky, high carbohydrate and fiber diet causes this. A few are 
even streaked with undigested green vegetable fibers. None are partic- 
ularly foul smelling. Also interesting is that 30 children can in mid-^ 
day provide a stool specimen within ten to fifteen minutes on demand, 
even more successfully than American students can provide such "to order" 
urine specimens I None said he could not, and none failed I Don recorded 
us "stooling" on cinema. 
I slept out in high winds and under clear skies with Athelstan Bowlen 
Tangparwos, Alfred Wonau and Marsdan Dungei and we slept well until the 
first bell for morning service awoke us and drove John from his slumber 
in the church-school building where he was asleep in the altar area. 
A temporary corrugated iron building serves as school and church now. 
The new church is completed as far as frame is concerned. Athelstan is 
the only boy in the 6th grade and he is a small immature 12 year old. 
Vivian Helen in 6th grade also — the class has but 2 — is already 15 or 16 
years old. In grade 5 Marsden is 14 (or 15) and Wilfred Willeike is 
only 12 and one girl, Mary Martha, is 14 (or 15). Of the six students 
in class 4, Luke (13 years) and Adams (14 years) are from the Torres 
Islands and small immature Rawcliff Emmanuel Pisiwok of 11 years of age 
is by far the youngest student. It is Athelstan Bowden and Rawcliff 
Emmanuel who interest me the mostjboth stand about quietly seeking my 
smile or other attention. 
Albert Wonau from Lehaloro, a Rowa Islander born since their re- 
settlement in Big Bay, is close and affectionate with me. He is only 
in grade 4. I like him and Athelstan and Rawcliff Immensely and have 
spent much time with them. 
The school boys, seated under a nut tree near the shore at midday* 
have given me word lists for the four languages used here. Thus, I 
find that the Lehali-Lekwarangle-Tanno language of Ureparapara is 
very different from that of the Rowa people on Big Bay but most words 
are easily recognizable, cognates and some are identical. Similarly 
Hiu and Loh and Toga have languages of their own, and these, although 
clearly more distant from Lehali speech than is Rowa, these two languages 
are closely related to each other, more distantly to the Rowa and Lehali 
languages . 
