spears, arrows, and mats to sell. We had begun the descent on the other side by half past ten and after a fifteen minute intermission for sardines and biscuits we kept going as fast as we could until after three o'clock. I am still unable to decide whether the view I saw was the view Hamlin saw or not. It probably was not, but it was a magnificent one. Over a broad green plat- eu as far as the eye could see to the uttermost horizon, with a thin ribbon-like exception where the plateau at last receded into the ocean. The direction of the view was SW by compass, and it was possible to see the other range of mountains to the west. Two blue columns of smoke rose from a point in the valley, coming, I imagine, from the two native villages of Moroni and Desekei. Some twenty miles away other columns rose from villages which were not able to be identified. Ona cleared away a large portion of the tree limbs and shrubbery which parenthesized the view, and I stood there for half an hour. Up to our coming to the view, late in the afternoon, four birds was the sum total of our operations. It was amazing how quicklythe birds appeared from this point on. First a yellow-bibbed dove going back up the moun- tain, then two dun colored fantails, then a thrush, a curvebill, four honeysuckers, two more doves, two long- tailed pigeons, a warbler, another dove, and last and eventually the most eminent catch of the day, a crested pigeon, the shooting of which was a preposterous affair