May 4, 1965
First mate's log:
No, we didn't leave the island. Well, not exactly. A piece of land broke off and we were in the lagoon, but that doesn't really count. I pretended to throw the magic stone in the jungle and everyone went looking for it. But I decided to hold onto it until I can decide who would make the best wishes.
I thought about giving it to the Skipper for his birthday, which is tomorrow, but he's upset about the little tiki statue we found while digging the refrigeration pit. The tiki is a symbol of Kona, an ancient native god. The Professor thinks we're being superstitious (he didn't believe in the Eye of the Idol either and almost stayed behind), but we didn't want to take any chances. We buried Kona under the pit and then we went to get one of Mr. Howell's trunks. But by the time we got to his hut, Kona was sitting on top of a cabinet!
The Skipper thought that Kona was following him, so he had me bury it somewhere else. There was an earthquake and thunder & lightning, so I just threw the statue in the jungle and ran back to camp. When the Skipper found out what happened, he made me go back with him and look for Kona, because it has to be really buried. The Skipper fell in quicksand while we were looking. I thought he drowned while I was getting vines to save him, but he saved himself.
He's making me look all over the island, but I had to write this down before I get too tired.
May 5, 1965
Carol Martin's Diary:
We're getting ready for the Cinco de Mayo/ surprise birthday party, but unfortunately the Skipper's superstition is causing him to be depressed. He thinks a little statue he and Gilligan found, which he calls Kona after a native god, has cursed him. I hope the party will cheer him up but I don't have very high hopes.
There have been some earthquake tremors, but the Professor says they're perfectly natural. And having grown up in California, I'm used to earthquakes.
May 6, 1965
Ginger and Mary Ann gave the Skipper the tiki for a present! They found it in the jungle and didn't know any better. No wonder I couldn't find it again. The Professor is going to go bury it somewhere. He doesn't believe in Kona, but he doesn't want the Skipper to be so unhappy.
May 6, 1965
Well, it was a lovely party at first. The Skipper was flattered that we did this for him and he liked all the gifts. (I knitted him socks.) That is, all the gifts except the one from Mary Ann and Ginger: the tiki statue! They hadn't heard about it and just thought it was a cute little statue left behind by natives years ago.
The Professor dug a pit, just to be rid of the statue, but unfortunately the Skipper later fell into the pit and saw that "Kona" was with him. He jumped out of the hole and ran into a tree. After the Professor treated him (he's the closest we have to a doctor), the Skipper kept babbling about needing a native witch doctor, called Watubi, to cure him.
So the Professor had Gilligan dress up as Watubi, with Ginger and Mary Ann as his native-girl assistants. They performed a ceremony, not very authentic I'm sure, but it was good enough to fool the Skipper, especially after his head injury. He felt so much better that he ran out of his hut, and right into another tree. Now he has amnesia!
May 7, 1965
Me and the girls cured the Skipper with a voodoo ceremony (I was the witch doctor and they were my witch nurses), but he was so happy that he ran outside and hit his head on a tree. He's lost his memory! The worst part is that today there was a news story on the radio about the Navy holding maneuvers near our island in a couple days.
The Professor said that another blow to the head might cure the Skipper's magnesia, so Mr. Howell tried to hit him last night, but me and the Skipper had switched hammocks so he could sleep better, so Mr. Howell hit me instead. No, I haven't lost my memory. And the Skipper hasn't got his back yet.
May 8, 1965
Ginger confided in me that the Skipper made advances to her! This is one unexpected side effect to his amnesia. He may not remember who she is, but he's still attracted to her.
The Professor thinks that if the Skipper were hit on the head again, it might cure the amnesia, which seems a drastic measure. The Howells apparently accidentally hit Gilligan on the head two nights in a row, which didn't help matters of course.
Today the Professor tried to hypnotize the Skipper into remembering the past, which meant that the Skipper was taken back to his childhood and saw all of us as children (not just the actual children). The Professor is going to try again after dinner. I remember when he hypnotized the Skipper in order to get him to turn the radio into a transmitter. This is more challenging, because the Skipper has to recall his whole life, not just one section of it.
May 9, 1965
Yesterday the Professor tried hypnotizing back the Skipper's memory, but first the Skipper thought we were all kids, and then he thought we were all Japanese soldiers, so he ran to hide in the jungle! We tried to find him but couldn't. And the Navy is supposed to be coming by this afternoon!
Well, we'll just have to try to signal them without the Skipper's help, and then when they show up we can have them try to find the Skipper. He can be cured back home.
May 9, 1965
The Skipper ran off, but we found him, or rather, he found us. He captured all of us, even the children, thinking we were Japanese soldiers. So we were all locked up in a cage while the Navy came and went. The Professor tried to hypnotize the Skipper again, but he made Mr. Howell and Gilligan think they were both the Skipper. And I guess Gilligan thought the Skipper was Gilligan, because he hit him with a telescope, which brought the Skipper's memory back. He cured Gilligan and Mr. Howell by knocking their heads together. Then Gilligan lost his memory falling out of the lookout tower! So now the Professor is trying to hypnotize him.
As Alice said, maybe we shouldn't have any more surprise birthday parties.
