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Nativeboat & Model

On Santa Isabelle Island in the Solomons I was able to purchase a model of a native ship.  Understand this was not a 'tourist' sort of thing as there were not that many Americans on these little islands where we delivered the displaced natives.  I still have this little boat.  It has inlaid with mother of pearl and shows remarkable native craftsmanship.  I also bought some war clubs and other things from them.  While we were returning one group of natives to these Islands we found a Japanese seaplane base that had not been touched since it was attacked by the marines.  The Japanese used these bases to keep surveillance on the Americans and they could hide in these Atolls very easily.  This base had been abandoned and I explored the entire place.  Their planes had been shot up pretty bad but everything had been left in place.