Lehner, P. 1964 Nov. 16 - continued ? to meet Ken and Roger, the rest of us waded out to the raft; with more water and the tide still coming in. I started the motor and slowly worked the raft inward shore and the other four; on the way in Jim picked up a Wandering Tattler that had been wounded and was floundering in the water; we had picked them up and were headed for the ship at 12:30; Ken had spoken with an elderly woman in the small village they had come upon and she had treated him royally - she wove a coconut frond basket and then placed in it the following gifts: dried octopus and clam, a crab, seasell and marine worms that are used as food; Jim and Dave ate some of the octopus, the rest of us abstained; birds coll- ected at this end of the atoll will be included in the list given later for today; at 1:10 we arrived at the ship, the anchor was pulled and we headed for the south passage, towing the raft; at 2:15 we anchored off the south pass in 27 feet of crystal clear, blue water; I was surprised we had anchored in what appeared to be such shallow water, but the captain assured me that the ship drew only 10 feet; at 2:45 we started in toward the main village ; we crossed the lagoon and beached at the village at 4:25; the huts here were constucted with sides and windows, and using the ground as the floor; many we had seen on previous islands were raised off the ground and had no walls; also, the men here had more tatoos than I had seen previously; we were met by a throng of natives, among them a policeman who took us to see one of the island dignitaries: the Magistrate was absent to the other end of the island and would return later in he evening; the Magistrate's hut, the wireless station, another hut and a well circumvented a large white flagpole which was set in concrete - there was no flag flying; (over)