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the commonest ones used generation after generation, and other names 
come right from their Scottish roots. Scottish names in South Sea 
Islanders is a strange thing to get used to, but it is nothing new. 
The oldest subjects we interview name their long since deceased parents 
with these same names I Island names are easily provided here, unlike 
on Mota Lava where many did not have any or know of any. However, even 
a father or mother or brother or sister has often to pause and discuss 
the matter with others before arriving at the island name for many of 
the children. Many prepubertal and adolescent children do not know 
their island name and we often have to shout about to find an informant 
who can provide it for them. 
The phonetics here is the most complex we have encountered in the 
Banks and Torres Islands. Jean says the language is tonal. It has 
enormously long place and personal names with very complex sounds, and 
the traditional names are provided for everyone, even babies, with only 
a couple of exceptions on the island. 
I have typed while the night time church bell has rung, and the 
whole village has gone to church. The older boys have chased off the 
younger boys to the service, but remain here with us. They have also 
chased off to church all the girls who had begun to arrive and stand 
behind them, to get a peek at my using this machine. 
We bled a total of 49 people here today. The people tell us that 
there are 73 Hiu islanders, but many are away. Five others have returned 
here with us today whom we brought back from Loh: Raymond and his wife 
and two children and John Wi'oi, husband of the woman who went to Loh 
for delivery of an infant. Raymond is totally blind from some retinal 
degeneration we do not understand and whether he has retinitis pigmentosa 
or not we are not certain. I was very frightened about his climbing on 
and off the ship on the high seas. When he disembarked into the shore- 
boa€ at Hiu we were in ten foot waves, and the boarding of the boat 
was not easy. He did very welll John Wi'oi came back to start new 
gardens, but his wife has remained behind at Loh convalescing from her 
delivery . 
Hiu does not show much hurricane damage now,' the destroyed church 
site is all cleared away and a new temporary church has been built and 
only a few undemolished wrecked buildings remain, such as Stanley's 
old house we are now using for its open airiness, it lacking any walls. 
John Marelete slept out of doors with me last night, but at day- 
break we had to retreat to the copra shed in which Don and some of our 
carriers from Loh were sleeping because of the rain. I slept very well 
and the small crabs covering the sands when we went to bed did not crawl 
into our blankets or mats. John William and Terry William, sons of old 
William who told me that his father was Joseph, from Italy^ spent the 
evening with me along with Leonard Mugoligwo and Joseph Hubbard. Hubbard 
and Terry had hidden themselves from us during the bleedings of the 
whole Toga community yesterday, and I only caught them this morning. 
