Lehner, P. 1964 Nov. 17 - continued 3 children are quick to pick up phrases and repeat them in a voice imitating the speaker, which usually came out low and gruff; after awhile we ceased the singing and wandered down the path in search of the rest of the crew and possibly some dancing: the children followed along repeating our names and the names of our relatives; we did find some more of the crew, and a native guitar player who sang western songs he had learned off a record on Tarawa; I twisted with a lovely native girl named Demeth who immediately twisted into the back to back style: she provided a lot of fun until singing practice began next door and then almost all the females left - they are practicing for Christmas festivities; while we were on shore 20 canoe loads of natives came out to the ship, tied up their canoes to the stern and came aboard for the "cinema"; while Jim and I were waiting for the singing practice to stop and the party to begin again, a boy came up to us and said that Dave and George were at a party at the other end of the village and asked us to come; we gathered some more of the crew and headed in that direction; when we got there George and Dave were sitting in a large meeting hall attempting to sing to the 30 to 40 natives who were seated across from them: we sat down and listened while the natives sang songs that sounded like hymns more than the usual lively music we had heard before; we exchanged songs with the natives and danced a little before excusing ourselves and going across the roadway to another party where the music sounded lively; we learned later that what Dave and George had accidentally attended was a church meeting - this they had to live with for some time: across the street Jim and Ben were singing Hawaiian songs; when we entered (over)