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The anthropologist, Richard Feinberg from the U.S., who has been resi- 
dent on Anuta since last February, has been most concerned about the general- 
ized tinea, called bakur here, in a number of Anutans. Richard Lee saw nine 
|i cases of this when he visited on October 7th, 1972, and seven cases of 
scabies. There are apparently a few lepers on Anuta who were treated in the 
i past. One patient, with a nose lesion that Richard tells me is inoperable 
basal cell carcinoma, and another with a destroyed nose, sounds more like 
gangosa from old yaws than leprosy... we shall see. He knows of three 
follow-up tuberculosis cases which have been treated. 
ji Today, while we worked on the far windward side of Tlkopia, Captain 
1 Phinney and his first njate came ashore and visited the nearby villages. 
!i They are very impressed with the construction of the large Tlkopian canoes 
j they saw. The anchorage was calm enough, so that we could have taken both 
I x-rays and developed them. I certainly hope we have such luck at Anuta and 
i on our return to Tikopia. We need it. 
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j We are short of vacuutainer needles and have thus had to reboil those 
ii we used today, and also clean them with fine wire. The blood clots have 
i already been separated and the clots frozen. 
I While visiting Ralph Wycllffe's family at Patif areata, I was given a 
i watermelon and apologies that they had no food prepared. I spent a half 
I hour with his parents and older brother. It is strange that off on Russell 
[;| Islands for seven years, he was nat- sent to school. Later the message came 
that the Chief had changed his decision and that he and his brother were 
not coming with us to Tlkopia. I thus went back to Matautu village, found 
i Leonard and asked for a canoe back to the ship, it now being too dark for 
I the shore boat to find a landing. We all trooped down the beach to Botiko- 
I rokoro where Mathew Teromaori took me out to the ship, and in high winds 
with a long paddle, paddled the small canoe. In payment I gave him a package 
of cigarettes. He is a fine youth and I like him. The story, explaining 
the Chief’s fickleness, is that his wife Insisted on going with him to 
Anuta; he said she could not and finally rescinded his decision and cancelled 
I his plans. I wish he were with us. At first, I thought that Jean had 
probably influenced him to change his mind, for he would surely prefer that 
I he stay here on Tlkopia, but I have now been given the family squabble as 
; an explanation. 
Back on shipboard, having missed lunch and now supper, I nibbled on 
crackers and drank much bouillon and tea, and went to sleep at eight until 
midnight. I am now up for the next few hours to work and read-. We are 
sailing overnight to Anuta; it is only seventy-five miles, but at low speed 
we should reach there at 6 a.m. , and after breakfast land at 7:30 a.m. 
Anuta October 21, 1972 
A day in which we have dropped suddenly into as primitive a Polynesia 
' as exists any longer, and a day not easily summarized. We sailed from 
I Tikopia at 8 p.m., and arrived at Anuta only at 7:00 a.m., because we had 
been going at low speed. The seventy-five miles can be done in much less 
I time. The trip was rough and off Anuta we had whitecaps breaking with high waves. 
