Faisi, Shortland Island, December 11, 1927. Dear Doctor Murphy: I enclose a copy of my journal up to the present date. Aikiki was the last island we col- lected before putting in for Faisi yesterday morning. It is not the best of journals. There are things in the other fields of science which I had done better to put in had I known how. I have seen bugs whose names, dispositions, and table manners would have been of great interest to some scientist in the proper scientific language, and there have been fish that have swum under stern, storms that have brewed, plants that have itched, and negroes that have shrieked with laughter, melted in tears, cried aloud in agony, and even made gestures bellicose and impolite, and have still failed to come into these pages. Perhaps they are fortunate in their lot, but at any rate, I would feel better to have had them in. We are leaving here for Bougainville in the course of a week's time. I hope to be able to write in a longer letter to you from there. Things are greatly rushed here on account of the steamer's departure so very soon after she arrives. Suffice it for the pres- ent to say that we are all well and happy and that every- thing is going along in tip top shape. I have it in a letter from home that the news of the Malaita fracas has leaked into the American papers. I am very sorry for this and I hope you will do your best to explain that Malaita is a long way from where we are, and that it