timbre. The dance of Kino is also less primitive and 170 has considerably more motion in respect to the distance travelled per individual. It is an affection of the walk of the peacock, a bird which, of course, these natives have never seen, and consists of extending each leg far out and to the side and swirling on them for- wards and sideways, each step being exactly like its predecessors. The altitude of the village, according to our aneroid barometer, is fifteen hundred feet. The natives, of which there must be not more than forty, wear prac- tically no clothes, the old men going stark naked and the young men and women nothing more than lava lavas. As it becomes pretty cool at night and as the diet of the populous is limited to taro and bananas tempered with an occasional pig it is marvelous how they bear up. We slept very soundly and awoke amid a barrage of barnyard noise set up by the chickens and pigs. I have never heard anything more unmerciful in my life. To it the pickanninies contributed their own matitudinal sal- utations, and the new day, locally speaking, made its official entry. The rain, which seems to be never twenty minutes away from Kino, lost little time in following the sunrise. December 30th. Doctor Drowne, accompanied by a member of the community of Kino, set out at an early hour to stir up the carriers from Kupei, while Hamlin and I remained behind to repack the boxes. At noontime the carriers, in the midst of a heavy rainstorm, appeared