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using open needles and three times alchohol-rinsed vials that had 
previously had heparin in them. These boys — especially Hubbard and 
Leonard, and some of the young married men — have been carving traditional 
long clubs for sale to the French Artifact Cooperative. We have purchased 
several of them. 
We took identity photographs o£ perhaps half of the children this 
morning and I took extensive cinema of the small boys, Charles Gordon, 
who has epilepsy of a focal type for about three years and after one 
attack developed a severe distonia of his right arm and leg. He now 
has a permanent dystonic disorder, with severe distonlc spasms of his 
right hand. He is anbarrassed about it^ and tries to hide it from view 
against his body, in his shirt or with his other hand. 
The coast at Litau has a fresh water spring, contaminated with 
sea water when the tide comes in, but fresh while it is out. The reef 
here is very hard to cross even at high tide and thus small boat landings 
are very dangerous. 
We finally left Litau at about 8:30 and walked to Kalwol in about 
one hour, but along the way, while discussing Kogaisantamba in the kuru 
region and adjacent Auyana villages with Raymond along the wide highways 
like trail on the plateau, I ran my face into an overhanging dead branch 
and cut myself severely just below my right eye, fortunately not injuring 
my nose or eye. I am now hoping that the well-washed laceration will 
heal well, without infection. We arrived at Lakwol a half hour before 
the Alpha Helix appeared from behind Loh, and boarded with difficulty. 
The Toga people people had got to know us for only 24 hours, and yet 
we seemed to have become good friends and long-time acquaintances. 
Many walked across the island with us and waved us off. 
Back on the ship I learned that Richard Ferber has had very bad luck 
with his Loh Island X-rays, taking 34 of them at Loh bay anchorage and 
then developing them on the quieter anchorage at the western side of 
the Island. To his horror, he discovered that the films were all un- 
exposed, and this had occurred because he had left the yellow wrapping 
paper over the films to help wrap them after each casette was emptied. 
He had thought this paper would be totally radiolucent, but had not 
realized that the film is sensitive to light wavelengths from a fluo- 
rescent screen, and not from the X-rays themselves. The yellow paper 
completely screened off the fluorescent screen. 
There are two youths here with super numerary digits, and interes- 
tingly and predictably, they are the siblings of the young woman with six 
fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot, who is now in Loh Dis- 
pensary after having delivered her baby there. She is Evelyn Rewutuiye. 
Her brother, Paterson, is a sixteen year old boy with six fingers on each 
hand, and no super-numerary toes. Her thirteen year old sister, Doreen, 
has only one extra digit, a right-sided sixth toe. Their parents are 
Belam and Madeline, but neither has extra digits. Two other brothers, 
James and Benedict, do not have extra digits. 
