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found everyone chewing cane. A half caste family occupy the town.
Mamit [[?]]als eating mangrove pod. Swift crab - hides in sand in water - bottled Mosquitoe hellish.
Colyntos talcum Ivi [[?]]ts like chestnut
"Daby". "Dilo" On beach
Playful girls Blackened 
our faces Splashed us
as we went to boat.
Roko wet & indignant.
O'Connor
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Vabia, Ono at 7.00. Al[[?]]k
on the beach; just arrived.
No Mike!
In morning left on cutter "Aivaluleon" for
light house - Solo.
Small islands all
about off Ono, then
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A couple of bare rocks.
Reef on all sides. Dead
calm & hot.
Reached light house at dark.
Enclosed in cuarl[[guess]] as reef - 
atoll - Bad place for sharks
(worst in Figi).
Light house latest patterns,
all steel. View of reefs from
above by moonshine
A few [[?]] r[[?]]s of volcanic
rock, ten feet above water at low tide. No landing 
place. Rough rocks.
Two Hind[[?]] men & one
woman. Changed every
two or three months. No
boat - can't run away.
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