Awaiting the "iVIareva" at Fare were two 100 pound blocks of ice for the 
large ice chest jn the pilot house, ■‘■'he order for ice had been placed in 
Papeete bjr radio, and this very afternoon were left for us by the inter- 
island boat, the "Orohena." Packed in a thick "mat" of shredded coconut 
fiber, and sewed in burlap, the ice arrived in good shape with scarcely any 
loss from melting. Although we were in the sunny and often rainy South Paci- 
fic latitudes, "the ice man cometh" as dependably as he used to come at 
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home. After getting ice aboard, the ’^Mareva'^ moved down the lagoon 
^ miles to an anchorage in Baie de Bourayne where fron J to 5 the after- 
noon» collecting in the shoaler waters of the channel dividing 
the two islands within the one fringing reef, "Huahine-nui" and "Huahine-iti.'J 
That night tow netting by Dr. Bowman provoked unsuspected luminescent ostracods 
in the catch to emit a succession of brilliant flashes of intensely blue light. 
There is always something new being turned up in collecting, morning, noon, 
or night. This islet, lehder and Gutress scouted after all hands returned from 
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the reef at half past four. Later vre moved nearer Fare, and the next morning 
explored the fringing reef to the right of the Avamoa Pass close by. This was 
as 
as intriguing and fruitful a reef /we had yet seej^V^n the morning we set out 
rotenone cakes for fish^y^mt Unfortunately the returns were poor due to unex- 
pectedly strong currents, and a rising tide. 
On Huahine is a great lake. Lake Maeva, where since long before the advent 
of the first European navigators, the Polynesians prosecuted a still famous 
mullet fishery. When fish are wanted, the fishermen in their canoes set up a 
great **drive,” beating the water with their paddles to frighten the fish into 
long V-shaped traps or pens of coral rock. Their combined openings stretch 
completely acr*oss an arm of the lake. At the wide open ends are stone shelters 
for the ’^vj-atchmen’* who close with nets the entrances of the several V*s to 
prevent the fish from ej^haping. The fishery was not in operation at the time of 
