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worn corals (alas, no more!) & all kinds of forams - also some algal nodules. Mapped two igneous hills & the lake basin. The lake is 3/4 of a mile long so the map is beginning to look good! Much of the flat lake basin is dry & grassy now but its a ^ [[insertion]] single [[/insertion]] sheet of water at times. After the water goes down the natives plant the exposed flats to taro - after burning off the deep grass.
The basal foram beds were formed directly overlying the volcanics & I read good dips and strikes. 
Tomorrow we are going to map the eastern lake basin, etc. - but I fear it is all in the hard Xl. younger ls. & there will be few good fossils. 
Am going to ink & color part of 
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the map now - see you later -
High-ho! - the evening grows late - but the map is drawn, colored, & inked - except for 2 or 3 spots & the western lake basin: There are 6 igneous areas, 3 of basal foram ls, 4 flats & the rest Xl. ls. Have enough traverse control to draw some nice cross-sections - though I haven't done it yet.
Willy is out again tonight working with his friend in the carpenter shop. They are putting a fine finish on your turtle bowl & my drum. Willy is making a tiny coco-cup to tie on the bowl & is having a tiny strainer made also. He is likewise making beaters for the drum as the original ones were not much. That boy certainly is a wonder! In every town we stop in he repairs