spear's and arrows so numerous, the latter are held 231 down in numbers. The others are suppressed with about as much success and accorded about the same measure of popularity as-anywhere. To get back to the French proverb- take the island with its tropical ulcers, its sepsis, its three kinds of malaria, its blackwater fever, it snakes, its centi- pedes, scorpions, elephantiasis, tuberculosis, leprosy, pneumonia, climate and history, and although other coun- tries have the same afflictions, understand it if it is possible to understand it, and pardon it if . . . you happen to be constructed that way. Hamlin brought down a new hawk yesterday with four rebreasts and a few smaller birds. The hawk has a white breast, black wings, back and tail. It is, in fact, almost identical in size and shape to the first completely black hawk we took. Just before breakfast this morning a party of seven Kanakas, being mostly old men, passed through the camp bound up trail. They were carrying with them on their shoulders a human cadaver. It was covered with leaf matting but one foot dangled free. The Kanakas were smoking, laughing and joking and were evidently in the course of proceeding to a burial ground. Ona and I started up the mountain half an hour after they did. When we were passing a sharp ridge which the trail ascends just above the thirty-eight hundred foot mark we heard a strange call off to the left, and