Soon the Captain moved the "Mareva" over to an anchorage off the 
Teavapiti Pass where we went collecting over the shallows between Taoru islet 
and the fringing reef, -^’he weat her continui ng fine, the shore and coral 
formations of islet Tetaro v\rereyworke<i over the same afternoon. For the nighty 
we returned to the wharf at Uturoa to leave there at eight in the morning for 
Huahine. 
Before leaving though, I ran back to Brotherson^s barber shop at the 
corner of which I had seen a very remarkable piece of wood carving, a regular 
Polynesian*^ totem pole*** Mr. Bredin had commissioned us to purchase, if pos- 
sible, some native wood carvings. Such things are now extremely rare, or 
sequestered in museums, so when I first saw this one I inquired as to its 
history and availability. **OhI that,’* said Mr. Brotherson, **is a prop left 
behind by the last movie company making a picture here. They brought it with 
them from Hollywoodl** 
En route to Huahine, the Captain stopped at Opoa to show us another 
marae, this time the most revered of all in the islands. By its great central 
columnar stone, the Polynesian kings of yore were crowned! In taking photo- 
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graphs of it, we w i arta d for a native in costume. The Captain obligedr^j 
ffi vesting himself of most of his clothing, wrapp^^ a couple of palm fronds 
around his middle and improvisedHtiL crown from a coconut palm bract! 
Huahine we shall remember as the sweetest smelling of the islands. The 
full-flavored aroma of vanilla could be appreciated for some distance off 
shore. It became more pronounced as we pulled along-side the seawall at Fare, 
hr?lf past two or the last day of April. Vanilla is an important cash crop 
in the Society Islands; in 1957 > 177 metric tons of vanilla beans or pods, 
valued at two million dollars, were exported. 
