204 recently ploughed and much of the cleared area is overgrown with grass and forest regrowths are coming in vigorously at least on the northern end. According to Mr. Jacobs, assistant resident at Manokwari, 600 hectares have been cleared of forest, and last year 400 hectares planted to cotton. Rain in the picking season interferes with the harvest, and in spite of the presence of pink boll worm, which does much damage, ratooning is prac- ticed. Only "middling" types of cotton are grown. According to all re- ports, Mowi is mismanaged, and climatically unsuited for cotton culture. From the fact that 1100 Papuans and 12 Japanese are employed, the venture might be judged unprofitable financially. In Dutch quarters the enterprise is regarded as political rather than commercial. A path to Augi Lakes, the best and shortest (two days) from the Manokwari coast, leads up the range behind Momi. Behind a narrow coastal plain the mountains rise quickly in smooth rounded grassy slopes cut by deep and narrow valleys. There old secondary grasslands extend to about 400 m., their upper limits being today just cut off by the level base of a cloud bank which formed about 10 o'clock and hid from view the forested upper slopes of the whole length of the range. The population responsible for this deforestation is moving south along the face of the range, whenefer some miles the forest is largely secondary up to the cloud belt. Late in the afternoon we anchored in the well sheltered harbour of Manok- wari and went ashore to call at the homse of Mr. Jacobs. A well kept little town consisting of one street with a double row of Chinese shops and one Jap business house along the shore, and above it a grassy slope planted with some fine African tulip trees, etc., a row of houses occupied by the higher officials, the minor officials having their smaller dwellings be- tween these two sections. A captain's cammand of soldiers garrison the place. The Town lit by electricity. Here is a fair sized, though anti-