accompaniment. It was a touching gesture. While ve do mot reel the vords, the song ende on the theme of “We will be waiting to mest you again, sometine, somewhere. * Shortly thereafter, ve said our formal good-byes. The group acAt this time they presented to each meaber of our companied us to the ship's ladder vhere the entire crev appeared te be assembled om deck. team 6 paper-vrapped, oblong package with their personal good vishes. (Cur assumption ag te the liquid contents was later confirmed to be "Fine, Old, Sare".) In response Our actual departure was accompanied -by hanishakes, formal ealutes and repeated good wishes and expressicas of personal regard. te the continuous waving of all theJapanese, ve returned the gesture from the deck af the launch and all contigued to wave until ve were out Even from the dock, we exchanged hand-waving. The afternoon was very pleasantly spent with the Hasslers cn JTF-7 (eee Tab L, Appendix I), Wrote and dispatched final message from Rabaul to Commander of sight of each other. 1200 1330 a moter tour of the Gaselle Peninsula, travelling the high ridge surrounding the harbor ef Rabaul. ‘merous native ds explained te us by Dr. and Mre. Hassler, the villages vere pointed out te us and ve actually visited one rative but. family groupe sitting at the roadside ani the moticsable foot traffie on the roads ig the agual Sanday routine for the natives. Wherever ve went, children end edalta alike vaved te us fron Py - the roadeide. During thie tour, ve weat through o recently BEST Ayan n os me at Oe Fa