Lehner, P. 1964 Nov. 18 - continued 3 looked in, there was Dave dancing with the native girl Demeth from the night before; she had been on the ship earlier (with about 50 other natives) for the cinema and had returned to dance; we learned from an elderly man there that she was 19 years old and had been married 5 times - we could see how; we twisted, jitter- bugged and sang until about 12:30 when Dave made a "thank you" speech and we left; he said that he had been there alone for the half hour while we were at the schoolteacher's and they had had an auction, leaving him to buy every lei; we rounded everybody up and headed back for the ship at 12:50; the movies were still running and the natives still had their eyes glued to the screen. Shortly after we arrived on Kuria yesterday we were informed that a message had been received from Tarawa and the British officials requesting the people there to ask us to wire them as to our business if we did visit the island; apparently no word had been sent to these islands from the British Embassy in Washington and the British received word that we were visiting several of the Gilbert Islands and had sent word ahead to intercept us and inquire as to our purpose; they did not come up on frequency until 9:00 A.M. this morning when a message was sent out describing the purpose of our visit and everything was then squared away; I was informed later by Captain Krull that a Commander in the Navy had also sent a message to the British officials apologizing for the delay in commun- ications; the "gods" are back in their heavens, all's right with the world.