is located not a great many miles from our camp to the southeast of the Old German trail. And a considerable number of villages which have been visited once by the government patrol have not yet been accurately identified, accurately charted, organized in any way or required to pay a tax. Kupei itself numbers forty odd men, women, and children. It is located on the summit of a small knoll jutting laterally out from a ridge of the Kronprinzen Mountains. I mention this again as the village proper is at some distance from our camp. There are eight sae houses mounted on poles and grouped in rough rows over a sloping mud clearing. To see it one thinks immediately of the absolute Alpha in human society. The women, or maris, occupy a very low position. It is their duty to supply the household with food. In order to do this they make daily or bidaily journeys to the taro gardens. They bring back the taro strapped to their backs in leaf baskets. Before it is cooked it resembles a large uncomely turnip and it is actually the root of a tall plant attaining the height of a man and bearing broad green triangular shaped leaves. They also bring with them a bunch of berries and an occasional paw paw, which they gather from the bush on their way to and from the garden. They smoke continually the leaf of a bush plant as do all their children from the age of four, and all appear to be supplied with the remains of a clay pipe.