(90) Burorotui to pick up the two boys who belong on the west coast of Bougainville, Batu and Kove, the for- mer from Hanon and his mate from Pukuto. They seem very intelligent, especially Batu, who has been an engineer on a big schooner around the Bukes for many years before he worked for the Mission. He is a genuine convert; for he receives practically no pay and has much longer hours and harder duties than formerly-but better and more human treatment. Father Wade gives us God-speed before we leave for the South end. The goa' launch came by and Mr. Vivian came aboard & examined our papers, from Rabaul. He is out tax-collecting. Seven still with me. April 12-The boy filled the water tanks between showers. Hicks and David had little success on acct of the heavy rain. Ho've up after lunch and proceed- ed down to an anchorage opposite Matoungun I. I am convinced I have Dengue Fever; there is nothing malarial about a four-day stretch of it with no varia- tion in temperature. April 13- Hicks and David off early. The Dengue rash has began to speckle my face, chest, and shoulders. Man- nel has been ill with true malaria for the past three days-a sicker though not a more ugly man than me. April 14-Decided to carry on to Big Buka to-day. The time we have put in on The smaller island is enough to give a representative collection of birds. Buka Passage is only 1/2 mile across, and a matter of a couple of hundred yards in some places. Variation is fairly