(12) has cancelled his trip and my father is coming out, arriving in Sydney on June 25. The cable enquired how long Richards intended staying - incidently the Museum has not received the wine he sent from Rabaul informing of his departure. May-10 The gun which I instructed the Custom officer here to hold for our arrival have been sent to Buka Passage - even after my letter came. They passed it on the AV Sapasan while we were at Tiop. The official, a Melbourne mental lightweight thought to take matters into his own hands. Well - they will be sent to Faisi by courtesy of Captain Palmer of the Rageia, the same chap who let us have a magneto. Cleared the ship by noon; our bill for stores consumed in the T.N.G. since the France arrived is simply shocking. We gyped them on as many items as possible - in fact - all. Hicks and David got a few more of the red-billed parakeets this morning, which augment's a somewhat reduced series. Hooped up at 1:30 and proceeded down the coast under power. He got permission to drop a passenger in a dinghy with his boys at Triomapa - a certain Pasley. Then stood out under sail for Oeva Atoll & Island. Those islands are in the T.N.G. and we are not legally allowed to visit them; however, we shall visit them. Quite uninhabited. May 11- Anchored at 7:30 off Oeva I., and the three of us landed. I collected a few Nikota pigeons, flycatchers (the ash-headed species not present). The terrain is all rough coral rock, full of convolutions. Hicks took a fine large cuckoo. We all returned after lunch when we hoed up and steered for Ovan Island, another mid-land protrudence. Anchored about 5:30 on the S-side under the highest land. During the night a half-caste Trader, evidently smelling unwelcome competition in another trading craft, came over from Fano I., to enquire who it was. This was - a McDonald, supposedly, has a shady reputation around Gizo. So we cannot land and collect To-morrow as planned. He might find out and make a noise. Ovan is uninhabited and larger than Oeva (one 4-5 miles long, oval shape - the other