Mr. Samson, the government patrol officer, gave us some valuable information anent the back country, Kanaka. From his advice and from the advice of Mr. McAdam, the District Officer, we completed plans for our expedition. On Monday morning we weighed anchor from Kieta and set out for Arawa plantation, seven miles to the northward. An hour or so later we bade farewell to the France and dumped on the shore of Bougainville three shotguns, a case of mutton, a case of assorted meat, forty tins of beans, twenty tins of jam, twenty tins of sardines, twenty tins of salmon, a side of ba- con, a lantern, kerosene, six axes, two cases of trade tobacco, two bolts of calico, two cases of ammunition, duffle bags of clothing, cornmeal, cotton, twine, scalpels, photographic material, arsenic, alum, oil, blankets, hunting coats, a case of canned fruit, a gross of butter, flour, salt, sugar, tea, cocoa, corn, and ship's biscuits.