(172) positive in the negative. This island is inhabited but affords no sort of anchorage. We passed it within a hundred yards to leeward in a heavy northerly squall. Undoubtedly we should have found the same kinds of birds, similarly meagre in numbers, as on Jawa and Dugumene Is., and Woodlark for that matter. Oct 30- Charlie still sick. Teresa, David, and I ashore at 7. Mr. Cameron sent one of his labor boys out with Charlie's gun (he has a Papuan license) to look for this "pulo" and the white and gray pigeons. We have seen nothing of those species. The flycatcher is hard to get here because of the lack of navigable bush. The whole central declivity of the island is cultivated and except where trails go through the forest is very thick and the ground entirely broken coral, precipitous, making penetration too difficult. There is only one track beyond the plantation which extends all along the shore for four miles and continues onto the other side of the island. This is the path Mr. Cameron's boy will follow; if there are pigeons there he usually gets some. Lately he has not been getting any. These pigeons are shot for food regularly by residents; we are expressly allowed to take ten skins. I took nothing new today. It was very hot - true NW weather.