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which was to be held this afternoon, was cancelled, since the taro was 
not really yet fully cooked in the ovens by early afternoon. It has 
now been postponed until tomorrow morning. This is also a religious 
feast day and also a ceremony for the Tikopian chief, who is visiting 
and was brought here by the Alpha Helix on its return from Santa Cruz. 
We too shall be honored at this feast. 
The big problem is how to get work done in the face of all this 
feasting and social life. 
I was finally informed by Basil, the Chief's brother, and Walter 
Schneider that the last canoe the people would take out would be at 4:30. 
It was just 4:00 p.m. then and we had started to collect more stool and 
serum specimens for virus isolation. I could thus not get them in the 
freezer tonight and in sudden chagrin and ill temper I gave up all attempts 
at getting off the island tonight, or of finishing our work right and so I 
cancelled all plans for departure for Tikopia tomorrow or tonight. I 
announced that we would stay through Sunday a.m. Thus my own and the 
Captain's schedule is now all thrown off and he is probably very worriedll 
We had better do all we set out to do here and not simply rush off as we 
were preparing to do. I found that Judy, Richard, and Ray had all had 
their fill of the island and wanted to go on board, especially since all 
bedding and personal gear had been loaded. Judy and Ray have bad tropical 
ulcers; thus they left this afternoon and only Don, John, Frangoise and I 
remain on the island with Rick. 
Suddenly seeing the impossibllty of finishing the many gaps in our 
work here without a day or two of successful work , I cancelled completely 
our plans of returning to Tikopia tonight or tomorrow morning. Instead, 
we shall devote tomorrow to filling all the "holes" in our studies. The 
four of us are caught on shore with no bedding or personal supplies. This 
sudden change of plan may irritate many on the ship and my colleagues are 
all a bit chagrined and keyed up by my fickleness and by my earlier 
indecisions . 
On board they had the enormous job of sorting our wet supplies out 
in the lab from the embarkation and and all the laboratory work (Hgb, Hct, 
WBCs and sorting all the slides) and separating off the recent sera by sec- 
ond decantation from Richard Lee's first separation? which he did for 
us in Graciosa Bay. Judy is exhausted and irritable, Ray is touchy, 
and they are all hard pressed by my many requests and demands. If all 
goes very well, we may get a very profitable final day of medical and 
genetic work done here on Anuta and at the least, a far better coverage 
of the studies we have done than would have been the case had we left 
today. 
We have been invited for supper of te uoa taro and manioka , 
green pawpaw (te no poyo) and pumpkin (j^ pomuten) soup and fresh fish 
tonight at the home of Basil, where Rick also lives. One canoe was out 
beyond the reef fishing today from 9 a.m. until 6 p.m. with two men and 
a 12 3 'ear old Fredrick on it. It returned with a huge load of fish at 
6 p.m. It was the first canoe sent out for fishing in the past week. 
