secure advanced education for his children • He had been on Bora Bora for over 
17 j’’ears and in that time kept one of the most wonderful guest books I have 
seen anywhere^ ■'/irtually every visiting yacht had left a photo, sketch, or 
pertinent note in that bookj^ regarding its itinerary^ and personnel. The book 
is a veritable history of exploration, adventuring or just plain yachting for 
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this part of the South Pacific for the period in 
question. One discovered many familiar names, ard indeed also some of close, 
dear and since departed friends - Karl Schmidt, bert Herre, and others of 
the Crane expedition of 1937i Harry Pidgeon had also called there^ the Yankee^ 
and Gifford Pinchot on the "Mary Pinchot," 
Mr. Sanford like so mny others has a rOTi 5 .rkabl^ shell collection but 
his ranges more widely through the island^ We thorough3.y enjoyed his lovely 
home and hospitality for the altogether too short time we could spare to visit 
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him. Ar^€x^ptionally beautiful / was that of**Turia" of whom George T, 
Eggleston wrote in his Tahiti ^ Voyage through Paradise . This collection was 
mostly of her own gathering. The day we called to see it she had just re- 
turned dripping wet from diving for shells in the lagoon, Mr. John Reasin^ 
Mr. McGonnaughy ^ s agent in Tahiti, deserves more th^n just a word of thanks. 
He facilitated all our work and did as much as anyone to make our collecting 
the success it was. Here again, a.s many times in the past, I have been moved 
to repeat the old, time and shop-worn, cliche "It*s a small world." These 
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year^I have been a resident of the sovereign state of Ma.ryland and 
Johnny Reasin was, during part of that time, a member of that State’s HighvrajT-s 
Department in my area/ 
Though more or less ideal for oun purposes, the "Kareva" did not have 
enough room on deck to hold all our chests-^ and crates of gear and supplies 
and have sufficient work space i.eft over. We had to leave a lot of them ashore 
from which onr stocks aboard were renlenished between island cruises. Most 
