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Already it is evident that we have here an interesting genetic 
mixture* One large family is that of a man who is a half-caste Italian; 
his children are rather dark-complected, but they have very fine 
features. There are no albinos. There is also a genetic line from 
Australian Queensland-Aborigines , with two men of Aboriginal blood. 
It is a problem of tact to pursue this any further. The children, 
who clearly show Aboriginal features, are reported from different 
fathers . 
The central plateau is some 200 meters above the sea and most 
of the trip is across it. The final descent to the coastal plain, 
on the southeast, where Litau lies, is the only somewhat dramatic 
feature of the trip. There are no other very scenic vistas. We made 
the trip in about ih hours. A group of three Litau men met us when 
we landed, and along the trail we met another half dozen Toga people. 
The village has an enormous flat sandy central field and dwellings 
are scattered about the periphery. It lies about 100 yards from the 
coast. There is a first grade here, and children are then off to Loh 
island for further school years. We have brought back the four Toga 
schoolboys from Loh as carriers and guides, but we have not had a great 
deal for them to do. John Marelet (M12) , John Browning Raputinlete (M16) , 
and Joseph Towia (M9) form Longharagi village on Loh came with us along 
with a half dozen adult carriers from Loh. We have moved in quickly, 
and have distributed our bleeding equipment and examination treatment 
instruments in the church where we shall do the venepunctures and 
physical examinations. It is a quiet, very hot afternoon. 
The hot sun beating down on the village, stripped of any shade by 
the recent hurricane made work all after noon very difficult. The 
church, where we assembled the people for bleeding was very hot and 
I became uncontrollably drowsy while taking the geneological data 
for the bleeding lists. It was a terrible effort for me to keep 
going until 5 p.m. when I finally finished recording the 99 persons 
bled on Toga. The four Toga school boys who we bled on Loh Island 
and the two at Lehali school Ureparapara bring to 105 the Toga 
population we have bled. 
Yoghavighamena village, Hiu Island October 14, 1972 
Pattesson, Jim, Zacharias, Daniel, Jakob, Joseph, Manley, Codring*- 
ton, Steven, Dunstan, Roy and Dominik. . .almost all the boys of Hiu who 
are now on the island, crowd about as I type by Coleman light in the 
blown-down ruins of Stanleyls old house in Yoghavighamena village, the 
only village on Hiu. The boys reflect the history of the Diocese of 
Melanesia Mission arriving here with Bishop Selwyn, Paterson and 
Codrington from New Zealand, and the immortalization that these monopo- 
lizing Missionaries have achieved here in their competition-free enclave 
of the Banks and Torres Islands for over 100 years. Their names are 
