Hermit crabs are abundant and several small gray and gray-green lizards seen. A large red land crab and numerous rats also occur. Quite a little driftwood (here mostly remains of the shacks) is scattered about. This entrance to the lagoon is about 80 yards wide at its narrowest point, and the incoming and outgoing tides race through it with the swift- ess of a swift stream (Pilot book says 6 knots an hour). Besides the far visible coconut palms, the entrance is further marked by three piles of rocks in the form of a V; one on the ocean side, one at the point and one on the entrance side. On the N.W. point lie the iron ribs and and angles of a small vessel and nearby the remains of a windless and rods. The reef at this point lies about 80 yards off shore. Opposite the entrance there are no waves - the soundings are given on H. O. Chart 1211. From this point all the rim of the island except the extreme S.E. end is visible. Above and behind the steep ocean beach with its intermittant coral and sand lies a belt of broken coral, here about 50 to 100 yards wide, behind which is a strip of vegetation sloping gently down to the lagoon beach. Two coconut palms are visible to the N.W. and occasional trees and patches of shrubs along the rim. Frigate birds abundant and some boobies and terns. Beneath a dead frigate were the usual dermestid larvae and beetles. Saw specimens of a green muscid fly - possibly Lucilia serricata. Numerous hippobosied flies about the frigate. Remains of a wooden ship on lagoon beach about 1/4 mile south of entrance. Rowed S.S.E. about 2 1/2 miles across the lagoon, which is badly blocked with coral heads, just awash, to where Hono had overturned a turtle on the ocean side. The island is here quite narrow, not over 60 or 70 yards wide, but with a wider reef, about 150 yards. Here there are scrub Pemphis bushes in addition to plants 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 listed above. The turtle measured about 3 1/2 feet long and 30 inches wide. Hauled him over a low place to the