120 
Paul is trying to get NIH to sponsor Ivan to join us in Ponape. I 
hope he can do so. We need his help badly. Everyone else is running 
off either at Honiara or on our arrival at Ponape. 
Vanikoro's vast mountains and jungles and large uninhabited stretches 
with its four small and widely separated villages seems to be a very 
enchanting and satisfying island. One does not feel so captivated by 
the land and the people as on the Polynesian islands we visited where 
no one has much free space — or initiative — where the culture also tries to 
contain the personality of the people and one’s personal space in other 
dimensions than those of terrain. 
The possibility that Simons has not been able to salvage blood groups 
on the erythrocytes he has received — he took them all — now worries me 
greatly since he claims he needs 2 ml clotted blood and we have provided 
instead about 0.5 ml thick serum suspension or red cells. I do not 
understand his requirement unless he is after serum factors as well — 
for that we have ample frozen serum. 
In one house along the beach trochus shell is still being collected. 
The market has almost disappeared, I thought. In now deserted Peu there 
was once a full trochus shell buying center! 
There are a few dogs in Vanikoro villages. There are some pigs kept 
by the natives and some wild pigs in the bush. 
There are ducks and chickens in Buma and Emoa. 
At sea en route to Santa Cruz ...midnight... November 3, 1972 
I have packed four cases of films, tapes, completed expedition record 
books, stool specimens for ova and parasites in holding media and fixative, 
thick and thin blood smears, and other field notes and also the Tongariki 
populations index from Jean Guiart ready for air-dispatch to NIH. 
I now regret that we are not going to have a chance to even cursorily 
study the Reef and Duff Islands, Santa Cruz itself and Utupua. 
Graciosa Bay, Santa Cruz (Nende) November 6, 1972 
A too exhausting day — too busy, too fatiguingj,; and too nervously frus- 
trating to have been wisely planned. Yet we have accomplished much. 
We bled 294 of the 340 students at Luesalava School of the Anglican Diocese 
of Melanesia this morning and afternoon, cornering even the school launch 
load of soccer players who left for the Station before our arrival at 
Luesalava. We took finger and palm prints on all the school children 
whom we sent to the Alpha Helix for chest X-rays. There were 111! 
