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wanted Basil, his brother, and Paterson, to be his appointed messengers. I 
managed to get Captain Phinney to agree and when the whaler brought the 
three Anutans and Rick Feinberg, who had gone out to the ship with Dr. Lee 
back to swim in through the surf, Basil and Pattesson swam out to climb 
into it. At 8 p.m. the Alpha Helix sailed for Tikopia to pick up Jean 
Guiart and bring him to Santa Cruz. 
Richard Lee has done us an enormous service in agreeing to pipet off 
the sera from the Anuta clots and freeze down the clots in the Revco so 
that none of our team is forced to make the return circuit to Santa Cruz. 
If all goes well the 140 specimens we collected here today will be an 
enormously valuable collection. However, I continue to worry about the 
frozen clots for red cell enzymes until we get them to Kirk in Canberra 
frozeni I 
I write as Harry Joel Mataki, Jakob Pu Koroatu's only son, sleeps 
already beside me and Pu Koroatu, our host, and his wife Nau Koroatu look on 
as Don reads and I write. The house is on the beach, just above the line 
of surf pounded sands. The landings here have been tricky and a bit danger- 
ous. I hope things get quieter, so that we can get back and forth to the 
ship on October 26 and 27th when it returns, but in the meanwhile all is 
well. With everyone ready for bed I will close our Coleman lamp and turn 
in. All the family look on as I write. They have spread out an enormous 
Tikopian mat for Don and me to sleep on. 
At Night in Moonlight and Colman lamplight, beside Teaukene, the Home 
of Chief Jakob Tearaman Pukoroatu, Anuta October 23, 1972 
We did only some 30 physical examinations today, mostly of children, 
but also of a few adults with significant findings. Three subjects have a 
grey-blue border around their entire optic disc bilaterally, which is 
moderately wide and a very impressive finding. These subjects also have 
a peculiarly hyperpigmented retinal background. One boy has this finding 
only in one eye, and the ring is not closed, but open on the nasal side 
of the disc. We guess it is a racial feature and can link it with no 
pathology we know of. 
One middle-aged man, still a bachelor, has a deformed face from an 
old jaw lesion, which has brought him to Honiara for surgery. We do not know 
what the primary lesion was. He also is a bit mentally retarded, and shows 
moderate spontaneous nystagmus, and hyperkinesis of his upper extremities, 
with some dys tonic movements of his upper extremities, especially evident 
in walking. We attribute it all to birth injury. I spent a good part of 
the afternoon with two of the boys wandering the mountain of Anuta, which 
is referred to as Te Mau'unga, and on the first crossing in the garden of 
Pu Paome, we were joined by his son of 12, Ataban. Both boys are affection- 
ate, cuddling adolescents, a bit risque in their talk when out of ear shot 
of the adults and realize that I allow them a joking relationship with- 
out social sanctions. They fill me with a sexual and pornographic vocabu- 
lary with glee, when giving me a body parts and fxanction list, and with such 
