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eaporleae^ewlong to remember I 
Rehder, I, or the fishermen. 
I do not knoYf who vra.s the colder 
They did not seem to mind. Were 
they more ofphe stoic t^^pe, or just ^’plain^' conditioned to this 
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On Saturday morning rotenone '’cakes " were put out in a likely 
looking place inside the outer reef, 'i’he operation of gathering 
the affect^ fish kept us busy through the forenoon, even though 
we had a very expert . skin diver helping us, Harry Sliupack, who had 
come down on the ’’Mariposa” ’with us.J 
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ang mas now . i ^ 
vacationing at Vaitape. So many v^ere the fish that/ we had an 
abundance fair our larder 
Ifter dressirtj 
hem 
We 
n^rous helpings of fish-head chowder a la I’emarii for lunch. Getting the 
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Specimens \ fish saved for injected, labelled, wrapped, and bedded 
dovm in our tanks occupiad/that afternoon, we returned to 
our old mooring in Faanui Bay, and after a lobster supper v/e had 
company, f/ord must have gotten around that ’we v;ere to sail at 
daybreak, for the girls v/ho ha.d posed for photographs, and v/ho had 
stayed for lunch some days ago, came by to give us a fare?/ell”sing’J 
Sing they could and did, a variety of charming songs in Tahitian 
and French, in delightful harmony and Yfithout accompaniment. One 
song in particular went over so well that I was moved to ask for 
balioccj 
the name and w ords, it was ”A Maid of Sorrento” a i rencn 
from records brought 
ehrned 
no doub 
ffom Faneete .oi^f rom the ’’Radio Tahiti”. 
