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The two lakes are quite different, Ed. The eastern one is just a wide irregular tidal basin which almost reaches the coast at two points. It lies entirely in the younger crystalline ls. The western lake, however, lies mainly in the basal Is. It touches the younger Is. at both ends but more than 9/10s of it is in a structured basin - the basal foram beds dipping toward the lake. It there receives most of the rainfall from the Western half of the island. The volcanic crowd upon the south shore in two places and at the basal Is. is only about 50 feet thick. The [[inferior?]] volcanic lie at a shallow depth below the lake bed. During the wet season the western lake drains into the eastern one through a channel in the younger
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Is - "Ngaranikalavo" (the rat-hole). This lies at its eastern tip.
Rain water from the extreme western tip of the island drains through the south - dipping basal beds & gives the village a good spring. This spring water runs into a really fine cement reservoir & from it is piped to several points in the village.
It's still blowing hard tonight - with an occasional dash of rain. Its a cool wind & comes in strong puffs & gusts - like a March wind at home. Its blowing straight toward Aiwa and Lakemba so even if it moderates we can't go. We would have to drift as no outrigger canoe can sail with the wind. [[left margin, insertion]] (except by time-consuming tacking) [[/margin]]
Damn! A bad feature is the fact that I have only enough yangosa left for one more evening! [[underlined]] But [[/underlined]] - wish us luck! Harry.

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[[companion?]] might also be compression? But am not sure -@siobhanleachman