(173) I talked long with Mr. Cameron about Ketara and its natives. He knows the language thoroughly, and told me some of their folk-lore. He assisted Malinowski when he was on the main island (Ririwina) in his ex- tensive ethnographic study. These people are undoubt- edly different from Papuan races. The maladjust- ment caused by the Methodist Mission has des- troyed all their acquisitive instincts and rendered the race a dying one - just another case. There are other disintegrating factors but the mission is the most vicious. I have found this to be true wherever Protestant Missions are operating with any affect; for appositive instance - no mission has had any real hold on Malaita. I learned a great deal more, but it is extraneous, I think, to this journal. The natives have brought us a good rep- presentation of snakes, frogs, and geckos. I have noticed remarkable butterflies and insects; but I have no cyanide bottle, at present. My curiosity is continually pricking me to do something in this line and in malacology. Little has been accomplished since Dr. Droume left the expedi- tion. Oct 31- Hove up at sun-up and set sail to pass,