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There is one man here with Australian Aboriginal blood and there is 
one family of children with long, wavy hair of remarkable beauty, who 
obviously have the hair and the features of Melanesian-Aboriginal cross- 
ing, but who are from a family reputedly not of an Aboriginal line here. 
Since the likelihood is that they are of this Australian line, we dare 
not press the matter of genealogical inquiry too far... it is a touchy 
matter . 
There is here one small boy about eight years of age (Cyril) , who 
has spastic hemiplegia since birth with brain stem and probably cere- 
bellar injury, but he is an intelligent schoolboy in spite of his motor 
disturbances . 
The old Chief, Cecil Tugorben, is a bit ataxic, with real peripheral 
weakness of his feet, yet which is a cerebellar type of ataxia. He 
also has enormous, probably filarial, testes — the right one lies in the 
canal, having never descended. Thus, an ectopic atrophic filarial en- 
larged testes presents a peculiar disorder. 
The community is very pleasantly situated and is also very well con- 
structed in spite of the recent hurricane damage. The dispensary was 
built in 1969, and it has withstood the hurricane very well. 
The boys who were drawing unself consciously at our table have now 
completely stopped drawing, or have crept into corners or even under 
the table, to hide as they continue their drawings now that many others 
from the village have crowded in. The embarrassement of drawing before 
their villagers is obviously great, while drawing before strangers 
was not so embarrassing. 
We have been planning to sleep on the sand beach, but rain 
has started, and I suspect that I shall be forced to use the guest house 
on the beach. Paul and Jean have made up cots in the dispensary. 
The plan for work tomorrow is extensive and I shall be surprised if 
we manage it at all, but it is worth aiming at. I plan to take to 
Toga the four Toga schoolboys who are here, and another six men 
help carry the supplies across the Island from Llkwol to Lltau village. 
Here we have _f 9 und fine colored baskets, made from pandanus leaf, a 
large number of wooden laplap knives, thinner and differently carved 
than the wooden blades made in the Banks Islands, and several fighting 
clubs and a few well-decorated pounders. We have found no nalot boards, 
most of them having been sold earlier to collectors who arrived earlier. 
There are several people with elephantiasis here on the island, two 
involving the lower extremities, and the Chief with involvement of the 
testes. At least one of the first two is from Hiu where the filarlasis 
problem is far worse than here, we are told. 
