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looked in, there was Pave danc.n'T with the 
native girl Berneth from the night before; 
she had been on the shin eari ier(wifh about 
50 other ' natives) for the cinema and had returned 
to dance” we learned from an elderlv man -here 
that she was 19 y ears old and had seen married 
5 times - we could 3 e<§ how: we twisted. jitter** 
bugged and sane until about 1? :~0 when Save 
made a "thank you" sneeeh. and we left; he said 
that he had been there alone for the half hour 
while we were at tie schoolteacher 1 and they 
had had an auction, leaving him to cut every lea; 
v.*e rounded everybody un and headed oack for the ^ 
shin at 12 t 30 ; the movies were snail running and 
he natives’ still had their eyes glued to the 
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Shortly after we arrived on iV uria yesterday we 
were informed that a message nad seen received 
from Tarawa and the British officials reouesting 
the neonle there to ask us to wire them as to 
our business if we did visit the island; 
apoarently no word had been sent to these islands 
from tie British Embassy in Washington and ther 
British received! word that we were visiting 
several of tie Gilbert Islands and ^ad sent 
word ahead to intercept ns end inouire as to 
our nurnose* they did not come un on freouency 
until 9:00 A.K. this morning when a message 
was sent out describing the nurnose of our visit 
and everything was then snuared' away? I was 
informed later hv Captain Krull that a Commander 
n tie Navy had also sent a. message to me British 
officials apologizing for the delay in commun- 
ications: the "gods" are back in their heavens, 
all’s right with the world. 
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