Journal of Edwin H. Bryan, Jr. while with the Whitney Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History on the schooner France, February to October 1924
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My Name Ellice Is. Name other name 15. Boerhaavia-like vine umunga or gunga makā ("kakee for horses") (Plant Spec. 10) 16. Grass 17. Taro talo 18. Banana fufi 19. Convovulus-like vine fu 20. Leafless parasite (takimol) (Vigna) 21. Low prostrate herb with small ovate leaves sounds like numa = (nguma?) 22. Foodstools talifiga 25. Large dry-land taro famu 24. Cultivated bean-like vī vine on a pole 25. Large tree with puka-val = (Hernandia pettata) putty red fruit 26. Tree resembling kou, (It is kou, sew blossoms kanava kanava sap used as gum for snarling birds (common near the swamps). 27. Manioc (cultivated) vatau or gnau, (root eaten) 28 Large tree gatau ELLICE ISLAND NAMES FOR INSECTS, ANIMALS, ETC. Hermit crabs. unga. Moths pepe Cockroach mongemonga Ants 1o (or g1o) or leo Flies gnaum t(hose on different plants called) (after the plant as gneu-pua.) A large brown spider caught in pendanus head. Spiders Levaleva Lizards mo (not mo'o) The lizards, moderately large skinks, are very abundant, appearing the