R.Clapp - 1964 Nov. 11 - Jaluit Atoll Upon our return to the center of the village we were greeted by the Womans Club (a local version of the PTA ?) and made honorary members (somewhat informally) Leis were garlanded around our necks and both Phil and I were given a fan and an excellent specimen of what I believe is a map cowry. We were invited to lunch and after waiting some twenty minutes, the women's cub arrived wearing bright green dresses which I believe are an emblem of the club. They had breadfruit, three boiled chickens, some sort of dumpling thing and coconut milk. (I hope to never drink another drop of coconut milk, sociality or no sociality). After finishing our simple repast, we were garlanded again and each women of the club contributed one or several large tiger cowries, (and another I do not know) to our store of goods. We [illegible] some 15 in all and I must admit it felt a bit like Halloween in reverse. Finally after, Phil and Dave, had exhausted their touristy impulses (Lehner now has the world's largest collection of color slides of Marshallese with some idiot with flowers in his hair among them) we left the island for Elizabeth. (Our guide was to return for the stack of green bananas we had been given. Parenthetically for those who may be interested in animal behaviour, individual distances decrase in Marshallese social life with outlanders like us in the following scale (from closest to furthest.) Adult males, Adult married females with children, small children, adolescent males, and nubile maidens. Oh well.) We finally got off the island at two and reached Elizabeth at three. The central lagoon proved to be a small stagnant area with much heavy leaved growth around the southern end and bordering right on the village. They headman of the village stated that four ducks had been shot recently and there on the lagoon was another. From here on the tale becomes tragic. Phil, who was shotgun today, crept along the bayou until he was close to the bird, and began to quack quietly to it. It apparently worked better than squeaking for shortly he commented