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Longharagi (Lungharigi) village, Loh Island, Torres Islands 
October 12, 1972 
Don, Jean, Paul, Ray and I are on shore at Longharagi village, 
where I once arrived in 1963, crossing the island along the trail we 
have taken twice this afternoon to the anchorage, on the west side of 
the island. This village, beside two fine, white sand beaches, is at 
the end of a bay, facing eastward, called Reghmo, but which is incor- 
rectly called Bale Narain on the French maps that we have with us. 
Narain is the name of the basin further inland beyond the small strait 
which separates off the island of Linua (not Linoua) on which a small 
school is situated in which there are nine students in grades 1 and 2. 
We had already left Big Bay before sunrise and at 7:30 a.m. we were 
off the village of Litau (St. Marks) on the southeast coast of Toga. 
There was a heavy wind and the sea was high, and we could see no 
possibility of landing. We reconnoitered the coast carefully along 
the south and then along the whole western coast, finding no feasible 
landing. Stanley did not know of any. Along the north coast we spent 
some time trying to find the small second village of Likwol on Toga, 
which we eventually identified with two canoes covered with palm 
leaves and the village site deserted. With no one there to help us 
with landing, to guide us across the island or carry our supplies to 
Litau, I gave up the idea of working on Toga today, and instead we 
headed for Loh. We talked our Captain into a cautious entry into 
Reghmo Bay (Baie Narain on the map) and found the sand beaches with 
people on them and the village houses above them. Our shore boat 
brought us over high seas into the Bay and onto a quiet beach landing. 
We were promptly and enthusiastically greeted and soon started our work, 
taking blood specimens of the 78 residents of Loh at present, including 
four boys from Toga at the school here and three families from Hiu who 
were here for dispensary care (with a total of ten persons) . We completed 
all this by noonhour, and before Franqoise, Judy and Richard returned to 
the Alpha Helix , at anchor now on the west side of Loh, we completed 
heights, weights, finger prints and hematological studies on everyone 
and physical examinations on more than half of the islanders. This 
evening we have been checking over a few problem cases carefully, and 
I now type as Don gets his records up to date and a half dozen children 
draw pictures on our well-lighted table in the dispensary. 
The village seems to be situated exactly where it was when I was 
last here, and even though it has been rebuilt after the hurricane 
damage it appears far more well-built and clean than I recall it 
from a decade ago. We shall complete our work here tomorrow, hopefully, 
with seas quiet enough for Dick and Franqoise and Stanley to make chest 
films and EKGs on several dozen people on the Alpha Helix while Paul 
finishes physical examinations here at the village and puts on nine 
antigen tuberculin, histoplasmin and coccidiodin skin tests. The rest 
of us will cross Toga to Litau village with the Toga school boys from 
here and a half dozen adult carriers, and stay there overnight, to 
return to Likwol for reembarkation on the following morning, hopefully 
with the Toga study done. We shall then proceed to Hiu. All this 
depends, of course, on the weather and the seas. 
