shore. We don't know as much about Bougainville now, of course, as we will when we have come out from our stay in the mountains. But already its past history, its present mystery, and its beautiful high mountains have excited an interest which even the Island of Malaita cannot equal. Bougainville, named in honor of Le Duc de Bougainville, was originally settled and developed by the Germans, and came into the territory of the german colonial tract known as German New Guinea. Tales are still told of the thorough methods of that country's colonizers. Recalcitrant native villages were wiped out in full. A road, at present crumbling into an obscure trail, was driven into the mountains and across to the northwestern coast. In the con- struction of it all the natives who lived along its course were shot outright without the trouble being taken to send in word to the government that anything untoward had occurred. It is generally believed that if the Germans still had possession of Bougainville it would be by now completely opened up. The Germans dug trenches in the marshes and got rid of the majority of mosquitoes. They built bridges over the large rivers and made charts of the entire coast line which are the best charts of any in the western Pacific Islands. The Australians have had possession of Bougain- ville for a decade, and it is still the enigma that i