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Housing facilities on the island are modern and comfortable, as 
u Oitrers . 
,re also i 
& the hospital!/ Dr. Roques, ¥/hose family-- wife 
back 
and daughter-— are with him, expressed a wish to exchs.nge 
nL^e- d sJS 
Coleoptera, of M s aqualung tanks 
to Papeete for recbarging^T^hey^Sould be returned to him on the V-6i^ 
next phosphate freighter. At foiu? -thirty Y/e left carrying 
with us the mail from the island, and after a seventeen-hour rim, 
marked by a good following breeze and occasional squalls, we 
entered Taunoa Pass, the -steafet entrance to the lagoon eastward of 
the Papeete Pass. By 10 o’clock in the morning, April 17, the 
"Mareva" was again snugly berthed at her accustomed place along 
the Papeete sea wall, the Quai Bir Hackeim, with mail and repairs 
the first order of the day. 
The next day the first purchase was a steel drum, into which 
as 
the fish we had gathered on Tikahau were transferred^ f or ouc 
< 3 v||f^copper collecting tanlcs had to bu 
for the next round of 
field 'work 
■ e ■ feulg e in Bora Bora, Hus^hine, and Raiatea. 
On the 19th, the opportunity was tiiken to examine the reef near 
the.lmrbor entrance. This netteo^nother interesting lot of fish, 
that were promptly injected and consigned to the recently purchased 
drum. 
Late that same evening Mr. James Copperthwaite, \Yith whom 
we had become acauainted before going to Tikahau, and who had 
evinced a great interest in our activites, and late:^in the 
skeletal material ^*t hnd dropped by to tel. 
of the discovery of a 
skull in a flower bed across 
the road 
