six in the morning and after passing Zeune Island on our starboard arrived in Kieta at noon. Sunday, December 18th to Monday, December 26th. Kieta. The harbor of Kieta is a wistful harbor. On the west the half-moon of Bougainville's coast with the District Officer's residence, the store of Messrs. Ebery & Walsh, and the four stores of the Chinaman, all widely separated along the old German Road, face out- wards towards the sea. Around the point still further another semi-circular curve of the road leads to the residence of the doctor and the outbuildings of the hospital. Dominating all the other buildings of the port are the masts of the House Wireless at the summit of a ridge in the cocoanuts; and beneath them are the red-roofed civil dormitories. The great mountains of Bougainville continually immersed in clouds rise so abruptly from the sea, that the harbor of Kieta, which, with all its buildings and its old German Road, is a considerable one for this part of the world, remains always an incident in its own panorama. It has, as an island port, a certain insincerity about it, as might any village that was begun by one nation and finished by another. And although it is a long time since the termination of the war and the improvements and progressions of the Australians, being new, are everywhere in evidence, the Old German Road still remains the most [illegible] landmark on the