set about preparing Kai in the cavernous depths of the "House Belong Boys Belong Kieppe". The "House Belong Kieppe" is an admirable affair. It is boosted off the ground on poles. The roof and walls are made of sac sac bound together with vines and again to thin poles. The floor is made of bamboo splits laid together lengthwise over heavy cross-poles. The result is a rain-proof room, open at one side, ten feet square. Bakki, our cook-boy, rustled up a sound meal of baked beans, taro, coffee, jam and ship's biscuits, after which we set about to dispose of our diplomatic duties with the villagers. The pickanninies were all made presents of a shining new (Woolworth and Co., N. Y.) glaze necklace. The presentations and accep- tances were carried on amid cheers from mother, father, and grandfather, and when the youngsters returned to their mothers the necklace immediately changed places. A small quantity of salt was also passed out to each family, and a knife was given as a present to an inhab- itant who organized a sample sing-sing, or dance, for our benefit, and made music on his Kalulu, an hollowed out bamboo instrument pierced with holes for note variation. There seems to be only one melody or rhythmody on the island. It is, as far as I can de- termine, framed on the Greek diatonic scale and results in being less voluptuous than the music, otherwise very similar to it, on Mono. It has a wild and rather Slavic