supper based on tinned mutton and fresh fried tomatoes, the latter of which, to the quantity of one leaf basket, were purchased in Kino for a stick of tobacco. Our tucker supply includes rice, sugar, tinned meat, sardines, self-raising flour, jam, cane syrup, ship's biscuits, tinned milk, coffee, tea, cocoa, tinned tomatoes, and tinned beans. Not a very changeable diet for two months but highly nutritious. It proved after- wards that any of the native foods, cocoanut pudding, poi-poi, and especially taro, combined in a fairly pala- table degree of harmony with the cane syrup and we learned to count heavily on these dishes as staple foods. December 31st. Soon after dawn all three of us set out with our guns to explore the surrounding country. A trail, fairly broad, and steeper than any I have seen so far, rises from directly behind the camp to the summit of the mountains. Off the main trail and still near the camp one or two small trails wander into the bush and valleys between the lesser ridges. Hamlin went up the main trail, Dr. Drowne went off to the right, and I to the left. Hamlin mounted to fifty one hundred feet by the aneroid barometer and I followed up later on the main trail to four thousand six hundred and fifty. The day's hunting brought in long-tail doves, two kinds of white-eye, two kinds of graybirds, two thrushes (Hamlin), four doves unclassified (resembling the female yellow-bibbed), four common redbreasted doves, brown