Narrative Investigated hill of fine brown dust covered with prostrate herbs; (guano?). Directly east to small water hole with clump of 10 small coconut palms, none with eatable or drinkable nuts. North and north-west of this is area apparently dug over for guano, resembling a mine dump, with piles of course rocks and dirt, some bare, some covered with flat herbs, among which I recognized a new one, (a common weed in Hawaii). Here was a small slightly brackish pool tasting more of guano than salt, at which the birds drank; the water was warm and disagreeable, but could be drank in an emergency. These pools and other low places surrounded by sesuvium patches; and entire area supporting a large colony of sooty terns, which had recently laid numerous eegs. The entire N. end of the island is made up of shallow basins or troughs separated by E.-W. running ridge of rough coral rocks. In one of these basins surrounding a shallow, brackish seep hole, was a clump of 22 coconut palms, two of them as much as 40 feet high, with a number of buts and fallen trunks of other palms. Some were in bearing and I carried several nuts back to camp. At one end of the clump was a small water hole of slightly brackish water, at which the birds drank. 18:6 About 200 or 250 yards N. of this is the N. point of the island. Here the visible reef is but a dozen yards wide, but the surf breaks heavily 100 to 150 yards out, with heavy swells beyond. Only a few drift logs. Beach steep with coral rocks and sandstone slabs, behind which is a broad belt of broken coral and sandstone rocks, intergrating into the broken coral ridges. Across this plane of rough coral are paved "alanui" or lines of flat sandstone and coral slabs, at convenient stepping distances, leading off in straight lines. Undoubtedly comparatively recent, because of good condition, having been probably built by the guano workers. The cuts and fills of the tram-ways which leads up toward the coconut patch are in such good shape that