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Our ship unloadings have been the only cause for launching any of the canoes 
at all. Today is the calmest we have seen of the surf around Anuta in a 
week and this week has been the roughest since February. 
If we can work smoothly, in spite of all the feast preparations and 
activities tomorrow, we may end our work here very successfully. I intend 
to make an enormous effort to do so. 
Many of the boys of 9 to 16 swam into the deep sea today far beyond 
the reef. Robert and Joel actually swam the half mile out 
to the Alpha Helix to visit the ship. I bathed out at the reef's edge 
in the surf, but the occasional six to eight foot waves proved a bit 
frightening and I did not bathe for over half an hour before giving up. 
There had been little bathing even within the surf-pounded reef until 
yesterday and today'. 
The Chief has presented us with three enormous bunches of bananas, and 
wanted to give us two large baskets of taro as well. I refused these. 
The island is still short of food since the hurricane, especially of 
taro and coconuts. Most of us have also been given gifts of pandanus 
fiber mats. I have also bought a men's pandanus fiber shirt with a red 
embroidered design for the exhorbitant sum of $16,001 The red pattern 
is made from strips of red cloth, rather then from red dyed pandanus fiber, 
as traditionally. 
Joel came in and gave me a small ring, for no apparent reason than that of 
his gratitude for the "calico" I gave him. These I gave also to; Christo- 
pher, Ataban, Joel, Ezekiel, Namaleas, Teperan, Albert, Fresher, Harry, 
Joseph Poromatua, Riithie, the Chief, Walter, and Martin. 
Before we leave Rick Felnberg gives me this last bit of information 
on deaths on the island since he has been there (March 1972 — to date); 
Nau Tevava's still born infant girl; and Nau Nevauneva, died June, 1972 of 
basal cell carcinoma of face (post-op). 
Tikopla, British Solomon Islands Protectorate October 29, 1972 
We have now collected blood from 150 Tikoplans, including the four 
at Santa Cruz during our last one-day sojourn here a week ago, and 47 today. 
Today we started only at the noon hour, and attempted to collected saliva and 
throat swabs for both bacterial cultures and virus Isolations on as many of 
those we had bled earlier as possible < and „on all 47 of those whom we 
bled today. This did end up rather successfully with 17 of those formerly 
bled, bringing to 64 the total number of virus and bacteria cultures 
and saliva specimens we obtained. Don also started to collect finger and 
palm prints, so that work was really started. We did not get to see 
many patients. Ray went to Matafanga to see Bartholomew, the teacher with 
fractured leg now two weeks in a cast applied by Richard Lee. He is 
still in pain, but we cannot do better by bringing him to the ship for 
X-ray, for the. danger of the trip and on and off loading would outweigh 
