Pehn or ♦ P., 
19 fib 
l ’70 
Nov 
•1 
18 
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u-n for morning; ^how and tha ^r r *s assin<?went : 
8:^0 A we tookkone raft in through the * 
. ‘O' *' nor or .-. y t> as sane (low tide) arid, drorned 
Binion end Barry off on Oheaka Is. ( the more 
n ° r - L 1 e r 3 ° 7 t h e 'o w o i s 1 an d s Generated hv tidal 
c '.cLi tne. 'Jm A on * Georoe and myself went 
lj o V.O a. sictr ci * we nad to through the 
so utn em nassa^e and walk the boat in a lonm 
ways, finally abandoning it to native children 
WiiO orouyh c/ it xn. with the tide? wo arrived 
on Kur ia an 9*xQ$ Ken and Koyer moinm off to 
collet birds; George and I picked up the rat 
traps , containing one Rattus exid ans and then 
walked c-o the northern end of the island with 
two young native boys as guides - they also 
snoweo us wnere all the rat trays were , indicating 
we might have had better luck had the children 
no u known wnere they v/ere : there are many taro 
>jc.i.ohes on une island, a_Ll dug to a denth of 
c^o^on/ 10 but with very little sta.nding 
water: the boys rointed out all the sights for 
us as we looked for birds and were verv anxious 
-° asir ’as the English word for many objects like 
binocular, camera, beach., st^ne, rock and sand: 
the-' were verv nuick to learn and remembered 
well: t ' ey took us to se a Georme and. as we 
armroacbed where George was all we could see 
was a beautiful grave: ironicallv George asked 
if George was dead and they said yes - he had 
oeen honored in his burial snot and the monument 
tney had chosen as a marker' - they had built 
a racket fence around the spot - his children 
oad been buried behind his grave: I learned 
later from tie schoolteacher that George had. 
been a trader from New Zealand who had been 
asked to work for the government when the English 
oook control: he had 1 ived on tie islandi for many 
years, hag ieen a friend to all and had Eied 
onry two years ago; x^e headed back for the 
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