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By 10:30 we were outside the reef at Emoa and preparing to land. 
By 11:30 we had eaten a rushed lunch and I landed with Don and Judy 
for a quick beginning of the bleeding of all the adults and children present. 
We finally bled 81 persons, bringing our specimens from current Vanikoro 
residents to a total of 104. There are several marriages now and in the 
past with Utupuans, all from Tanumbili village. There are also extensive 
Reef Island contacts with a half dozen Reef Islanders now settled here. 
One Reef Island boy, Roy Maake, from has finished 7th grade but 
did not make it into secondary school. He is resident at Emoa for one to one 
and a half years only he says. There were several Tikopians here at Emoa 
whose presence was not explained. 
Of the 163 censused Vanikoro residents, to have already studied 104 
is not bad. We have collected throat cultures for virology and bacteriology 
but no stools as yet. Heights and weights and some physical Examinations are 
done but only nine finger prints. In general, we are finding that our 
basic routine keeps six doctors busy for several days with only 100-200 
people to deal with. To carry out a further level of study and laboratory 
work would demand far more than a week at each population studied. As it 
is we are trying to do too much. 
One women of 45 years of age has a flaccid post polio paralysis of her 
right leg with marked hypodevelopment of that leg. She says others died 
in the epidemic in which she was afflicted. At Lale there is another 
survivor of this . early polio epidemic who is similarly afflicted. He is 
Pattesson of Lale. The epidemic occurred before the Dresser, Walter, was 
born. He is now 27. We are slowly navigating at low speed and five miles 
or more off shore around the southeastern corner of Vanikoro and will lay 
off cruising back and forth off Hayes Channel all night. Only in clear 
daylight can Captain Phinney find his way through the channel. He was 
furious with me and Walter for loading on several Buma people this after- 
noon to sail with us to Buma, for he claimed he would be stuck feeding 
and accommodating them if we did not make the anchorage as we have not. 
Since earlier it was suggested that we fetch 50 or so back to Buma with 
the ship for X-rays and study, I thought that a modest four needed no 
advanced notice. I was wrong. 
Walter claims that the Tikopians at Emoa are the only Tikopians on 
Vanikoro. There are none in the other villages and they have not married 
with Vanikoro people. They have arrived to reassert ancient land rights 
to a part of Vanikoro which the Vanikoro people seem to acknowledge. 
The small Buma Cendall Vanikoro Cooperative Society store at Buma is 
sparsely but very interestingly stocked; hydrogen peroxide solution, 
Williams Aqua Velva, razors and blades, torch batteries , Instant coffee, 
sweetened condensed milk, toothbrushes and tooth paste, shirts, trousers 
(long and short), undershorts and singlets, sweat shirts, yardage of 
"Kaliko", Chinese "Bone China", teacups and saucers and plates, axes, 
rice, tinned fish, chewing gum, pots and teapots, biscuits, and toilet 
soap. 
