(181) Nov 8- Four of us landed at 7. I made a half day of it coming out on board for lunch with M. Brudo, a French pearl-buyer. I intended taking photographs and movies to-day, but rain spoiled the program as it usually does. The natives were going to dance. I took very few birds. David shot two more "pulos"-the tig fruit-eaters, and I got another olive-bird, a female in moulting. We have fair series of everything represented except the thickhead, which is certainly different, and this olive species. Small birds, excepting the honeyeaters and starlings are the most difficult to obtain. The terrain about here is a great swamp and acres of gardens and low scrub on old gar- dens. The best bush land could be reached by a march overland and a camp, which I do not con- sider worth while. Anchorage is the worst feature of the place; no deep draft vessel can get within three miles of the southern peninsula where I had originally planned to work. Nov 9- Hove anchor at 6 and proceeded out through the long passage of reefs under power and will sail. Wind to-day easterly, the first in over a week of any strength. Set our course for the Amphlett group. Ar- rived and anchored off lee side of Wamea Is., a sheer