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We should then run further clinic in the afternoon and continue on the 
following day until mid-afternoon when we can finally depart for Honiara. 
Unfortunately, our arrival on the 12th is on a Sunday, when it will be very 
difficult Indeed to get anything done. To get the frozen clots safely off to 
Bob Kirk on dry ice is our major task, and that not an easy one. However, the 
more we can get off and thus free up the Revco, so much the better, but nothing 
will be possible unless the dry ice and shipping containers for it arrive from 
Port Moresby to where Paul Brown has had them sent, arranging with Ian Maddox to 
have them filled with dry ice and shipped to Honiara for us on the 12th or 11th, 
I hope! We shall see. 
Tlno Golden, a 13 year old 5th grader, is drawing along with Tuhaika Pongl 
at the desk in Solomon's home where I have been given chairs, a fine table, and 
clean sheet and pillow case covered bed. The house was prepared for a large 
group of us, and three could have had cots, and the rest ample clean floor space 
for our own camping cots, mats, and sleeping bags. As it is, I am using the 
house alone with Solomon's family. He is Milly's paternal uncle. Tino is his 
youngest son. A rather flashy, long haired, suave and erotically conscious boy 
of 15 or 16, Pungeba Henuangua, is now drawing with the other boys. Outdoors 
his remarks were all about his dog's penis and semen, and other genital 
references to the younger boys, and a very coy, hypersexually conscious 
reference, as he lounged about the darkened lawns in sexually suggestive 
postures. He is a rather typical Bellona teenager. 
The second school on Bellona is the Angai'lho (Angaiho) SSEC school with 
some 40 children in Standards 1, 3, and 4 and with three teachers. This is 
located near the airstrip. Tino goes there in Standard 4 while Tuhaiko goes to 
the Matalho school in Standard 5. 
The people tell me that Tino, when a boy of 5, was playing in the surf at 
our landing beach, Ahaga, when the heavy surf and strong current suddenly 
carried him out to sea. Matahenua people saw him off the shore as a coconut or 
something in the sea, and recognizing the drowning boy, swam out and rescued 
him, already unconscious. He has periodic severe headaches which he and his 
family trace to this episode of near drowning. 
Honiara, British Solomon Island Protectorate — 1 a.m. November 14, 1972 
On a moderately clear, starry night with the harbour calmed down 
considerably over the breaking waves which we had this morning, Francoise bid me 
goodbye undemonstratively. I have not had much intimate sharing of ideas or 
life with Francoise on this trip, but I have enjoyed having her with us, working 
near her, working with her, and watching her enjoy herself. Jean Guiart's 
leaving left her a bit lonely, and Paul's departure had the same effect. She 
liked John Sheridan when he arrived and they got along well together. 
