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Samuel Mafileo, one of the Tongans who carried the flag to Falcon. He is the engineer on the [[underline]] Tui Toga [[/underline]] & his brother George (who sailed with Beck) is mate. Both, by the way, are relatives of the Queen of Toga - it was all explained at length to me but I'm still slightly bewildered! -- near as I can figure it they are 2nd or 3rd cousins.

Samuel is out of reading matter so I gave him a [[underline]] Geographic [[/underline]].  

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Also gave corncob pipe to Samuel & George & sent one out to Fotu.
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He promises to send us rock samples from some of the volcanic islands of Toga.  He claims there are "soapstone" on certain of the Haapai islands (I doubt it - no?) & will send some of them too.  He located

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the recent eruption as follows

[[image: map of landmarks]]

x Late
x reef
* reef (scene of eruption)

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x Lighthouse
x Ofolanya
X Hanpai

Tofua [[downward arrow]]

I heard much gossip of Tongans the Johannsun, Powells, Nielsin, & Charlie Hama are all thriving on Eua according to latest reports.  Tonga is not hard hit by the depression (at least not too hard).  She is shipping bananas on a large scale & the government has

Transcription Notes:
There is a diagram of sorts describing the volcano which could not be represented but I have typed the words he used.