at home and have gone out to pillage the colonies are reincarnated in Newell. They were very pleasant to us in their own way, and as they were hungry for news of the outside world must have been sincerely glad to see us. We spent the night here anchored and the next night as well. Saturday, October 8. (Hameri). Fooled around Hameri all day. Hannibal got his gun fixed up and became immediately very happy. Newell took us around his place and in the walk around, which was full of the worst sort of language and gossip imaginable, I noticed two immense eagles perched on a large cocoanut tree. We spent a very wet night here again with the rain coming down like blacks of ice. The canvas of the 'Awa' leaks badly and as our beds are nothing more or less than the deck alongside the cabin it cound not have been better arranged for catching every bit of it possible. There was some argument about getting one of the Maris who is very sick here to Gizo. Everything was agreed upon between Tate and Newell and she was about to be brought aboard when it was found out that one of the Malaita boys on the boat's crew of the 'Awa' objected. It was "Taboo, too much big taboo", as he expressed it. That was an end to the whole business. We did not take her aboard. Sunday, October 9. (New Georgia). After Newell had come out about five o'clock and taken some of Tate's tinned goods from him we got an early start in the rain and came out of the Lagoon into the open sea. We had an all day run to Arundel Island with a good sailing breeze and pulled into Naru at dusk. Naru is one of the Lever Brothers' plantations. It is situated on the mouth of a long and rapidly flowing river in which there are more fish than a