(Mundi Mundi). Mundi Mundi is about fourteen miles from Nyanga sailing north along the coast. It is the location of a large cocoanut plantation owned by the Amalgated Plantation Owners, Ltd., and operated by a gentleman named McPherson. The plantation is one of the neatest and most orderly I have seen yet in the Solomons. It is situated at the mouth of a river which drains the entire highland to the east. We anchored in the middle of the afternoon and while Mr. Beck and Mrs. Beck went ashore to pay their personal respects to the owners' agent I took the dinghy and voyaged up the river in search of a bath. I found it. Then another tropical day sank down upon its own little forehead, dying as they all seem to, before it had been born, and what is more important to this story, before any of us had fired a shot or killed a bird. Rain falls at Mundi Mundi in the middle of the morning. I didn't know this, but I found it out in such a way as never to forget. Going ashore at seven I took the bush trail that leaves the plantation and crosses the river about a mile and a half inland. When I came to the river it looked so low and harmless that I decided to go up it counting on the small strands and flat stones to support me. It was impossible to follow its course through the bush on account of the heavy growth. I kept travelling until noon time when I imagine I had gotten five miles from the crossing