Lehrer, P 4 
1964 
17 i 
Nov». 
13 
continued 1 
vi* 1 lame s toming to drink from. coconuts which 
we^e "Provided by a. man who was out taming 
coconut snrouts for toddy*, we followed the 
beach nart way back to tie vallate looking 
for thorebirds - we saw marv Ruddy Turnstones, 
Golden Plover and Wandering Tattlers, as well 
as a counle of Bristle-thighed Curlew but 
nothin? unusual? we passed by the school on 
our way back to the center of the village and 
saw Chris and Pay inside watching the children 
sin o , so. we went inside also: Chris had arranged 
with the schoolteacher yesterday to come to 
school today to take movies of the children 
sin ring and. danciny: we ^oz there iust as they 
were "preparing to mo outside and dance, so we 
mot to see the children twist and <fe Ihe Gilbertese 
hula: the school, the schoolteacher's house and 
many other huts onrthe island disnlav "pictures 
of Quean Elizabeth or other members of the 
royal family: one of the children in the ^roup 
rryihg a Common. Noddy c h ick— indicating 
that they are nesting somewhere on the island; 
we left the school children about noon and 
returned, to tie raft „ meeting* Ken and Rover 
there: they had collected: 1 Pacific Simeon, 
1 Reef Heron, 3 Golden Plover. 2 Ruddy-Turnstones , 
2 - Bristle-* thigh e d Curlew, and 2 Hawaiian Noddies r 
Chief Redfeather gave the children who had 
watched? the raft a quarter and then we shewed 
the scads of little natives off the raft and 
headed for Oheakaiisit 12 '*45, leaving Chris 
and Ray still photographing the c hildren; on 
the way into he island we approached a sand bar 
with about twenty Crested Terns on it so Roger 
grabbed the gun and ^ swung the raft so as 
the' shot would not c^nry onto the island - 
somehow Soger froze and the shot was never fired; 
(over) 
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