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luck will get me off before many days & I will have to catch up by dawn-to-twilight work days.

You must now be nearing Frisco and as the [[underline]] Aorangi [[/underline]] reached Vancouver today Jane will soon have my Tuvutha' book -- I wonder if she will realize how history is repeating itself? -- no infected leg here anyway -- but I do have some fleas.  They don't bother me much & looking for them gives me something to do!

Now arrives dinner.  Come, trade places with me for a day or two, Ed, and you can have [[underline]] all the eggs! [[/underline]] yes and [[underline]] half [[/underline]] the jam!

Harry

Namuka, July 14th
Dear Ed --

An overcast day with showers 

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at intervals.  Light & fair wind from Mothe but no canoe came over.  Tomorrow is Sunday so I see little chance of getting away for Yangasa' before Tuesday.  However, we shall see.

I've just been checking up. July is 14 days old and its rained all but 3 of those days --- nice?

Office work of various kinds today.  Nothing of any great interest -- but I did a land office business in 57 varieties of land shells! All the kids in the village want work! 

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Even the Mbuli collector!

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They bring in the bottles so full that each makes  two by the time they are drowned. Am down to my last layer of bottles. I figure Cooke would rather have an island well covered than little collection from various 

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