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The mooring lines were gotten aboard at 
morning. Half an hour later we w^ere well out of the pass. The 
sun was just peeking over Bora Bora’s Mouiits .Otemanu and Paiha, 
and as I v/as asking the Captain to have a look at this very 
beautiful smarise, I realized that I did not have on my earphone. 
Without it conversation, as hard of hearing as I am, is no fun. 
for me or for anyone else. It. was neither on the shelf by my bunk 
or in any other likely place. It mus^^t have been left on a rock 
by the ’’spring” late last night while taking a. ’’Baturuay night’' 
shower with buckets of spring v/ater. The oversight cost us an 
hour’s time - SO minutes in and 30 minuties out again I 
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It ''^s<ts''arcaim, clear , sunny 
day, with a lighL easterly 
breeze. On this run to Raiatea the Captain wanted to show' us a 
well-known, large marae at Tevaitoa, and several figures or 
symbols carved on boulders nearby . Marking them out with chalk 
that he had thoughtfully brought along, we did get a snapshot of 
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them. That done, the Cantain ’went on to/Uturoa, the seat of the 
Raiatea government, .fn i , i rom the i/aterlront instcillations 
it is an important port of call. Everything v/as shut do’.m, as 
it was Sunday, and here we v/ere, so very short of formalin, due 
to that accident on the v/^y to Bora Bora. We needed it badly, 
not only for what might be collected here but alsocat huahine 
in the course of the next five days. Among the tov/nspeople ’//ho 
came dov/n to see us was Charles Brotherson, the toivn baiber, ana 
. - hov/ lucky can one be--— a Seventh Day Adventist, to whom oru* 
Sunday was just another, work day . As soon as he learned of our 
