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Only last year an ethnobotanist, who worked most of his life out 
of the Bishop Museum, came to Anuta for three weeks with two student 
assistants. They got stuck on Anuta for eight weeks, and the students 
had a dreadful time. So distressed were they back in Santa Cruz on 
.their return there, that they used all their money to charter a flight 
-from SOLAIR to get them to Honiara for five hundred dollars. Instead 
of waiting for open seats on the scheduled flight only three days later. 
. . .8:00 a.ra. 
We pulled up anchor in Graciosa Bay at 7:00 a.m. and are heading 
out to sea enroute to Tikopia. The Captain is satisfied with our new 
■'itinerary, complex though it is. We packaged the Santa Cruz feather 
money and left it as the fourth box of the shipment waiting there, to 
go to Honiara and on to the U.S. next week. There is much doubt that 
SOLAIR can find the space for it all... I hope they can. 
At the Santa Cruz Hospital we made extensive ward rounds with 
Dr. Lee yesterday afternoon and saw a half dozen really interesting 
patients. Tuberculosis is obviously a great problem and our failure 
to find it much of a problem in the Banks is surely erroneous. Thus, 
we did find one reactivated case requiring long term treatment in 
the hospital again and a half dozen suspicious cases of which a few 
will probably be proved andrequire long term therapy. This thus pro- 
duces the biggest hospital case problem we have encountered. 
Here is the Captains sailing itinery which has resulted from my 
revised schedule: 
October 19 
0700 
Depart Santa Cruz 
October 20 
0600-2200 
Tikopia 
October 21 
0600-22/2300 
Anuta 
October 23 
0700-0800 
Tikopia 
October 24 
0600-25/0300 
Santa Cruz 
(Graciosa Bay) 
October 26 
0600-27/2300 
Anuta 
October 28 
0600-31/2000 
Tikopia 
November 1 
0800-3/1600 
Vanikoro 
November 4 
0600-1800 
Santa Cruz 
(Graciosa Bay) 
November 6 
0600-9/0200 
Rennell 
November 9 
0600-11/1500 
Be Ilona 
November 12 
0700-14/0300 
Honiara 
November 18 
0800-22/0800 
Ponape 
The only letter I got off from Santa Cruz was to Joe Gibbs. The 
only mail I received was from Raglmar at Hamilton and with his letter 
I was most pleased. He has moved in well. I am worried about Yavlne 
and hope to get a long letter off to him from ship today, to send off 
to Santa Cruz with Jean when the ship leaves us at Anuta. 
