The cook-boys have learned to keep the camp clean, an accomplishment which is worthy of the adjective con- siderable, inasmuch as it required a direct conquest of the most highly fortified trait in the native character. They are, as well, surrounded with tins of foodstuffs and exerting a petty authority over all our other posses- sions, eminent in the eyes of the Kanakas. They play the part of the hosts to them very grandly and pay some of them with a plate of rice, or a plate of cocoanut pudding with tea, for hauling water or bringing in dry firewood from the bush. In this office there are always three or four extra hands hanging about. Cumbai, Lut- nineva, Wagga, Tutepai, and Sappi, are all retained, feed, and kept happy at the slight expense of less than a dollar a day. This figure includes the rations of the cook-boys and in addition pays for all the taro, cocoanut pudding, paw paws, kow kow, and arrowroot that comes into the camp. It seems that with plenty in their tummies the natives cease to associate with the distemper. They have been continually friendly to us and everything they have done has been essentially important and invaluable. It would be ridiculous to commence a serious Anthrop- ological study of Bougainville natives from the facts garnered in a trip of only two months duration. I shall therefore limit myself in this field to impressions of them, changing and possibly contradicting themselves from time to time, in the hope that an interested an- thropologist reading them with that acknowledgement in