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I found that the boys had built a fire for a lovo but that meant a long wait so we put it out & cast off - drifting on around the western island. Its features much like eastern one. I went to sleep as we drifted & only awoke as we scraped over the reef.
The short trips from Auivi barrier to that of Lakemba was even rougher than in the morning. Our outrigger traveled high wide & handsome & once or twice all 24 feet of it jumped clear of the water at once. We got wet, my bedding got wet & the cases of [[rechu?]] & food below deck got soaked [[left margin, insertion]] [[arrow]] my shredded raincoat kept the movie camera dry [[/left margin]]
[but nothing was injured & all is now dried out]. As we sailed over Lakemba's barrier that Jesi somehow slacked the sail rope instead of hauling & the wave that
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[[left margin]] The Europeans would hardly believe me when I told them I had come by canoe today - but they [[underlined]] had [[/underlined]] to believe me! I'm no angel - I didn't fly over! [[/left margin]]

carried us along went on without us. The scraping  & bumping did no harm, however, & we were soon into the clear. We were then off Nukunuku & had to drift all the way to the point next to Tambon.
Anchored off the village about 4:00.
So ends 200 miles of canoe travel! Paid off the Captain & the crew with a bonus to each. - and brought Jesi a new pair of shorts.
He is the only man I have ever seen with both sides of his ass out at the same time!
Oh, yes and as we furled the sail [[underlined]] after [[/underlined]] clearing Lakemba's reef Jesi - lame, deaf & dumb, Jesi - hung on to the boom as the sail flapped & was pulled overboard! Everybody laughed like hell as he scrambled

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[[rechu?]] - just can't work this one out! -@siobhanleachman