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Although all went well after moving out of the building where we had | 
unwisely started, we still had four cases of fainting in those whose originally | 
stimulated anxiety never abated. By treating these as a joke and haranguing the ; 
students to sit down in the shade, we managed to get by even this without panic. ! 
With 111 students X-rayed and fingerprinted and 273 bled and all 
documented, we had a fine lunch at Miss Anderson’s home and then sailed back to 
Graciosa Bay in midafternoon. I took with us Ambrose Teava, a 15 year old Anuta , 
boy in Standard 5 — the only Anuta student at the school — and George Bill, a 16 i 
year old boy from Nembau Village on Utupua in Standard 4, as linguistic 
Informants. From them I have obtained an extensive body parts and functions 
word list for their respective languages. George Bill says that there are two , , 
languages spoken on Utupua. 
There are about nine Tikopians and seven Vanlkoro students at the school. | 
Most of the students are from Santa Cruz or from the Reef Islands. There are a | 
few Duff Islanders. We have thus been able to quickly get a genetic lead on the i 
Eastern Islands we failed to study intensively: Duffs, Reefs, Nende and 
Utupua. I j 
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After finishing lunch we packed up and returned to the ship. We then | 
sailed back to Graciosa Bay where we had stopped to pick up Dr. Richard Lee at i 
6 a.m. this morning and there we boarded some 17 patients whom he wanted us to | 
X-ray and 21 additional students who had left Luesalava School to come to the ] 
government station for a soccer game. The additional 50 X-rays and 38 bleedings ; 
took us until 6:30 p.m., and now we have until midnight to try to separate off | 
sera and erythrocytes and freeze down clots and develop the X-rays. i 
Listening to tapes of well-selected music, which the Alpha Helix is rich 
in, and reading Natural History magazine and The Pacific Islands Monthly and 
finishing Henry Miller's "Big Sur and the Oranges of Heironymus Bosch"... and 
copying out the Anuta and Utupua word lists from Ambrose Teava and George 
Bill I can finally relax and wonder what we have really accomplished on this 
cruise of the Alpha Helix . It is a long sea voyage with little relaxation and 
all we do is preliminary to much more laboratory work if the specimens survive. 
My mother used to dress me up, 
and while my Dad was sleeping 
We would walk down to your house 
without speaking. 
I wonder how deliberately Bob Dylan and other songsters set about finding 
situations of estrangement and alienation about which to write their captivating 
lyrics. They certainly are aimed at the "lost" adolescent. 
Paul has written me a brief and a sad and an honest letter which completely 
confirms my suspicions for his decision to leave us and makes me glad that I 
left matters so completely in his own hands. He is depressed and found our I 
overscheduled, enormously demanding program no place to ponder and solve his 
problems, and he was unable to let them simmer under the burden of work and 
