166 ACCOUNT OF THE EXPEDITION IN BOUGAINVILLE December 29th. With sixteen pieces of baggage including large wooden cases, duffle bags, guns, several axes and a lantern, and supported by thirty native carriers, the expedition left the house copra of Arawa Plantation and set out on the trail to Kino. The trail follows the course of what Mr. Esson calls "Number One River", entering the bush about a mile from the plantation residence. The beginning of the trail follows the main Kanaka trail which is used by all the villages in this part of the mountains. On both sides of the trail, which is about a foot wide, the bush is cleared away from two to three feet. Our course followed this route for two miles or so. It is gradual incline. Arriving, finally, at a swiftly flowing stream we turned off from the main trail and commenced the more precipitous part of our journey on an ordinary bush trail, a rough and jagged path following fortuitous water sheds, stream bottoms, and the mud steps formed in the roots of the trees. This trail continues at more or less right angles to the main water shed crossing a fair-sized and very beautiful river and several small fast-flowing streams. Another mile from its intersection with the main Kanaka trail our trail entered upon a broad, treeless delta on both sides of which the roar of large rapids was audible. Another half mile brought us to a steep incline up which our