town look deserted and neglected. The place contains about half dozen Chinese situated at the boat landing, there is a Dutch Protestant mission and an ugly church. Al- together it is an unattractive place. Most Government buildings are quite new and built of brightly painted concrete with shingle roofs, but the town is generally untidy and half overgrown with grass and a fern (Dryopteris sp.). Was impressed with the large force of native police stationed here. May 24, 1939. Entered at daylight the little landlocked harbour of Woi Bay on the south coast of the far western end of Japan. Here we stayed most of the day loading hardwood logs for Manokwari. Each log is supported in a rough float of small buoyant logs and sticks of all sizes, each in charge of several shouting Papuans, and hoisted on board and down into the holds by ships winches. Most of the logs/to be of a species of Entsia. Quality good and some of it up to 2'6" diameter and weighing 6-7000 kg. In this little harbour are a number of perhaps-Chinese houses built half over the water along the beach on the eastern side and, at the head of the bay an orderly-looking marine village of about 20 large houses. All truly native villages on Japan are of the marine type. The people are of Papuan type, small, of rather good features, rather dark in colour and reasonably clean. The men remind one of the Negrite people seen on the Wassi Kussa on the south coast. They wear their hair short, and often a big fibrous plug of chewing material held in front of the teeth makes their lips protrude enormously. The women wear their hair long. When arranged in the Papuan mop it gives them a Melanesian appearance, and when drawn back tightly over the head and formed with a ball behind, a Malayan fashion often effected, they might be mistaken for Malay women. (Breadfruit trees