Andrew Gina

The strange phenomenom of gender uncertainty crossed our minds on the two islands we visited. It was the general opinion of our party that there is a masculine look to the female islanders and this was born out by letters of Gauguin's that I read before visiting. He asserted that there was none of the 'tweezer' legs of the Parisian lady to be seen, the thigh continued uninterrupted to the foot that tends to be large in itself. His paintings bear out this physiognamy most faithfully. We felt we were walking amongst a caste from his paintings. But, what is more, some of the people who worked in the restaurants were hard to classify; they seemed to be men dressed in dresses and crowned with hats or crowns made of fresh flowers and had sweet high voices. They also fell in love with Perkins (our stuffed monkey, for new readers) and we have some photos to show.

So we have named the doubtful ones Andrew Gina (androgynes). By the way, that monkey was photoed today (4th March) in LA with 6 trained border collies one of whom is the American National Obedience Champion. So Blair has been outstripped.