209 Ona and I met the first group at our five thousand foot mark. They were under the leadership of a Kukerai who spoke Pidgin, and carried some baskets and kow kow on their backs. I suggested that he make a call at our camp and sell the baskets, and it was a suggestion which I found out later he carried out. The second group, seven in number, passed us without a word or a salutation at lunch time. They were without a Kukerai, being evidently from an unregistered village, and were travelling very rapidly. Most of them wore no clothes at all. In the center of the procession was one mari with a tremendous blue stone necklace strung around her. They carried bows and arrows and heavy loads, the mari bearing the heaviest load of all. The last group, going inland, passed in the late afternoon evidently prepared to spend the night traveling. They were from a village which they called Faro, and bore signs of a visit to the Kieta Chinaman, one of them carrying a tin of mutton. With them was a Kukerai who spoke Pidgin and had very pleasant manners. He pointed out a bird (a curvebill) in a tree, waited until I shot it, retrieved it, and after reassuring me of the great number of "pidgins" which "stop along Faro", organ- ized his forces and departed. When I returned to camp I found that Hamlin and Dr. Drowne had had a profitable day's business with these same Kanakas, purchasing arrows, spears, and baskets. The first and the last group had stopped while the se- cond group had gone through like the wind.