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the end we collected some 99 specimens from children and adults, and could 
have collected many more. However, there was more suspicion, more episodes 
of children fleeing or refusing, and of reluctant adults than we had en- 
countered elsewhere, and this discouraged the others a bit. I should myself 
have taken on the task of assembling more people, but the bleeding went so 
much faster than did the recording, that I found myself completely tied 
up with recording and giving numbers for several hours, and welcomed 
the end when it came, not trying to drum up further volxinteers. It is 
evident that I can do this easily on our return, and I could on easily be 
getting 100 to 200 more specimens from Tikopia. With the four from the 
family in the Santa Cruz hospital we now have 103 Tikopians bled. We 
did not do any finger and palm prints, any measurements or examinations 
today. We did take a dozen or so photographs of umbilical hernias, common 
here, whereas they are in Melanesia. In fact, there are some six or eight 
here in children three to eight years old, larger than any we saw previously 
on the expedition. One boy of about 8 (years old is dumb, but apparently 
intelligent and his dumbness is from deafness, I presume. That flattened 
occiput as a common type here is amply evident and we shall try to document 
it better on our return. 
I was too busy for some four hours with the attempt to get names, 
villages, parents etc. of the subjects bled that I did little touring of 
the villages in and near which we were working. While we worked, the chief 
sent word that he would like to go to Anuta with us and I agreed gladly, 
and he planned to take his brother, Luke, a teacher here, as translator. 
He planned to stay the whole week on Anuta with us and return here with us. 
I made arrangements for Luke, him and me to board a canoe from the anchor- 
age side of the island, and at 4 p.m. we walked back to the dispensary, 
radioed the Alpha Helix and sent our party back on board with the blood 
specimens. Leonard, the dresser, went on board, inspected my Futuna-made 
canoe and agreed to try to repair some rot in it and repair or remake the 
outrigger, and thus we off loaded it and he brought it to his homestead 
in Matautu village where his old father may work on it this week. It is 
built very differently from Tikopian canoes that I have seen thus far. 
Only Jean Guiart and I stayed on shore after dusk, and I made a tour 
of the villages down the beach from the dispensary: Botikorokoro, then 
around a promontory which is reached by the high tide so as to isolate 
them from the rest of the beach at high tides, Rafaea, Patifareata, and 
finally, the last (and only two-house) village of Potimua. Walter Furitofi 
lives in the latter, and Mathew Taromaori in Patifareata. There we visited 
several houses and found them built like that of the chief’s but smaller 
and less carefully but none-the-less impressively and firmly constructed. 
I was quickly presented with four chronic medical complaints in adults here 
ranging from chronic paralysis of the legs after a poliomyelitis epidemic 
here in the 1950 ’s to a deeply pigmented bordered fungus-like skin lesion 
which looks psoriasis-like in the centers which has been erupting for 
several months on a man who also has severe abdominal and urinary complaints. 
Shortness of breath — a very common complaint here in the Banks and Torres 
and Solomon Islands meaning many different things' — and low back pain — also 
common and usually associated with "hard work" — were other complaints I 
noted and promised to attend to when we returned in a week from Anuta. 
