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Tengei, boys of 15, 14, and 12, who had come down the shore in a large canoe. 
We pulled their canoe onto the beach along with that of some men, left them 
there, and took on board with our whaler a total of 10 men and youths for 
Lavangu, whom we examined and from whom we collected blood and hematological 
specimens during the trip down the Bay. After lunch we disembarked at Lavangu 
and promptly bled and recorded another subjects, whom we later studied 
j hematologically , and with dermatoglyphics , throat cultures for virology, and 
with identity photographs. By late afternoon we all boarded again, had supper, 
and only Don and I are ashore tonight, while John and Richard try to develop the 
remaining undeveloped X-rays from Santa Cruz and those we took at Lugu this 
morning. 
The most Interesting medical matter found has been a high incidence of 
clubbed foot here at Lavangu with severe intoelng and raised heel. Three male 
siblings all of the same parents have the syndrome bilaterally, and in addition, 
there are three other children with clubbed feet, all unilateral but one, who 
has the deformity severely on the left, and mildly on the right. Thus, we have 
found 6 child and adolescent patients with this deformity already in this small 
population. 
I| The people tend to call this whole bay and region Lugu, and to use the term 
Kangano Bay for the eastern side of this Bay, off Lugu and the Kangano Council 
station, now deserted. This western end of the Bay they call Lavangu Bay. 
Erik Saunga has offered to let me sleep in his house. He is the youngest 
son of the Chief of Lavangu, who is off in Honiara with his wife. Erik lived 
there for several years going to school through Standard 5 there, and residing 
at White River, which he did not like. He reminds me of Raglmar when I first 
met him on Fais...a bit of a "Spiv”, always courting strangers, making sensuous 
I advances to visitors, and sporting a sophisticated savoir faire and self 
assurance which often wins him the attention and the material gains which he 
i seeks. However, like Raglmar, he is himself his own victim, being captivated by 
I'i the personal relationships he thus so easily makes, and finding in them more 
' value and motivation than in the material favors he uses to cloak his first 
■; approaches. .. .which are a way of saving himself embarrassment before his own 
people, who pardon more easily exploiting foreigners than identifying with them 
!j too closely or intimately. The latter leaves one open to much teasing and 
shaming. 
Tengano village. Lake Tengano, Rennell Island November 7, 1972 
There are four cases which Medical Assistant Wilmot has spotted of periodic 
or recurrent episodes of exanthematous ecchymotic eruptions on skin and mucosae 
which he describes as "swellings" with painful, slow increase in size, sometimes 
I accompanied by fever and other systemic symptoms of malaise, and which 
eventually, after a course of several days, become "black" discolorations 
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