H. Amerman 1964 Marlin Atoll, Gilbert Islands could not come up with a song which everyone knew or even that a few people knew well. What resulted was always a halting, giggling dance which must have made us look ridiculous if not insulting, to the lengthy and superbly done songs they did for us. Jim, Ben and Tigrera did team up on a couple of Hawaiian songs which were beautiful, though Jim's powerful bass and vibrato occasioned much laughter on the part of the natives. They evidently found it very strange. These three also did a lot of clowning and pseudodancing which went over well though perhaps mystifying the onlookers. Jim and one native girl whom Phil dubbed the Gilbertese Martha Kaye "danced" at one point, to every- one's amusement. This woman was apparently a born clown and she gave Jim no quarter. There were times in the dance when it looked as though she might throw him across the hall, a prodigious feat indeed! Phil was to dance nearly to exhaustion with this girl after we left and he attests to her wit. She merely had to open her mouth and the natives burst out laughing.