October 15, 1972 
Hiu Island 
l*aul and Don left for Loh today at 6:30 a.m. planning to stop at 
Tegua en route for about one hour to get blood specimens from the six 
to eight residents. The Alpha Helix will then set off for Mota Lava 
with Stanley and his niece to deliver them there late this afternoon. 
Tomorrow morning it will pick us up here again, and shuttle us via Tegua 
to Loh to pick up Paul and head for Ndeni (Santa Cruz) in BSIP. Our 
work here in the New Hebrides will thus be done. 
There is increasing friction between my scientists and our Navy- 
style captain, who wants tighter schedules, command, orders, and disci- 
pline, not appreciating that we do not run our work by levels of 
authority. He is very upset by various of our party attempting to give 
orders for the shore boat, and trying to determine what food stuffs 
are sent ashore for us. Thus, there have been some very sarcastic 
exchanges between him and my crew and he has retaliated with by being 
stricter than ever with the use of his shore boats. Our captain likes 
well-delineated authority and responsibility and exact schedules. Thus 
our disembarkings and embarkings are run like scheduled trains and wa 
have no chance of leisurely planning our work until we are once on 
shore. Then, we are often too rushed to take things as we please. 
Actually, the Captain has never been able to settle for the scientists 
living on shore. He seems to resent our insistence on doing so. 
... mrdday ... 
We are all resting from the heat, and the islanders have asked 
to go out to their gardens to bring in food. We have examined everyone 
this morning and taken identity photographs and records of the inguinal 
and femoral filarial lymphadenopathy, of the hemiae and hydroceles we 
are finding, and of the severe cases of elephantiasis on the island. 
There are many flies in the village in daytime. In the high breezes 
of the evening, we found very few insect pests, and I slept without 
being bothered by mosquitoes on the beach with a half dozen of the 
children, Jim, Paterson, Daniel, Zacharias, Jakob and Joseph staying 
with me all night. Our morning work has fared well and evening blood 
smears and hematocrits and hemoglobins are our only remaining problem. 
During the afternoon I walked down the beach which faces southeast 
toward Tughwa, as the Hiu people call Tegua, and into the bush and 
overgrown coconut stands beside this sandy beach where I found Patterson 
and Zacharias, Jim Collin and Philip making stick traps for ground birds 
(wild fowl) in the form of log cabin pyramids propped up on one side 
with a triggered "fall" which the bird upsets when it goes after the 
copra "bait", trapping itself in the pyramidal cage. We spent a half 
hour on these traps, then another in fetching and opening coconuts, 
and finally returned to the village. I took some still and cinema film 
of all the procedures. 
