few provisions (staples, "lilies", knives etc.) may be had. Monday, March 3, 1924. Sailed down across lagoon to Motu Koe:- Motu Koe lies about 1 1/2 miles S. 60° E. of Katava and about 4 miles S. and a little west of Puka Puka, (the west point of Koe is S. 15° E. of Puka Puka). It is connected with both these islands by broad flat reefs for the most part awash, but part of that toward Puka Puka, which forms the east wall of the lagoon is raised above the water in dry sand. The island is broadly horse-shoe or crescent shaped (see sketch) slightly larger than Puka Puka, but not as thick. The arms point nearly north. From east to west it extends a little less than a mile, but is only 1200 to 1500 feet thick. It is the flattest and least luxuriant in its vegetation; nowhere rising more than 60 or 65 feet to the tree tops. Fresh water is abundant, both in the shallow wells near the native houses, which line the lagoon, and in the seep holes toward the south-west central area. Probably less than two acres are under cultivation (taro and bananas), although coconut trees grow in some numbers among the other vegetation. On the south side the reef is wide and flat, with a broad head of coral fragments, which at the S.E. end is higher above the edge of the reef than inland a few rods. The vegetation is the same as in the drier portions of Puka Puka and Katava:- Scaevola, Pandanus, coconut palms, birds-nest fern, beach runner, ipomoea-like vine, grass, tamanu (Kamuni-like tree), Tournfortia, Boerhaavia- like herbs, low shrubby herb with red panicul, maile fern, tall fiber shrub or small tree (vau), lepidium-like shrub, noni, a few Buka trees and in the one low swampy area - bananas, taro and the sedge. From the villages along the lagoon bay paths radiate out, some making clear cuts stright through to the ocean side, (which allowed me to pace the