In a long time. 
'he second 4«l— *%]/ E^V 3 scarcely 11 inclie 
in length. 
For our spoils we 
carried a bucket each, s 
bailSiiwere 
Just as unsuited for ’work on a reef at night as those of our 
Coleman. Instead of bucket or basket the fisherman had 
sizeable pannier woven of palm leaves, supported by a 
S uP^ 
p of 
the same material over the right shoulder and crossing the chest 
to the left side. Ever so often we came upon M large, almost 
lake-like, tide pools too deep to ?/ade, or deep crevices that 
had to skirt. We did encounter several good surges of water 
across the reef but none that posed any serious 
c! 'F* Vll'* hi 
atj the fish- 
erman al’ways warned us in time. Aside from lobsters, — Oiir ha'Ul 
XJ ' H ' this first- time out oolloctlng la L ' Ms fa ' blilOxi wao irq -t 
particularly si - gnlf loan4 .> 
There is a Iwa y s a ” pay -of f ” to every adventure, and ours 
on 
v~mj back to the "Mareva’V 
v?as the rain squall t iia^we ran 
1 / 
Neither Render nor I ever forge t it^ or Bora Bora where 
- napponod b^ This sauall 
4'’'\ 
Vw d O 
henry Strauss 
wenx threugl? ^ 
the previous ?/ednesday when he c 
:ome out from ¥aitape in that 
ft'" 
toy canoe to see us much the same only more sol We had no 
^ 'feel 
idea how really cold these tropical rains can tJ:iin-shirted 
as we were. If you want to kno?/ how it felt try v/earing a Vvet 
cotton shirt on a dark night in a chilling wind while sitting in 
L „„„„ — . shipping water, with no chance 
to do any bailing, ilalf an hour of it and you are a mass of goose 
the bottom ofa narrow canoe 
pimples, and your teeth are going like castanets-*^ yes. 
