Best anchorage is between ↑ beacon and flagpole about 250 yards off shore. Mr. Charles Jennings (half cast Samoan), manager for Capt. Allon and Samoan Shipping and Trading Co. came off to greet us with 3 of the 11 natives of his employ. SIDNEY ISALND. Friday, March 21, 1924. Ashore about 6:30. Greeted by Mr. Jennings and shown a good trail lined with mat grass and raised in places above ground level, leading around island. Sydney Island about 2 miles in diameter, nearly circular and with a lagoon in the center about 1 1/4 miles in diameter; leaving the ring of land on the average 3/8 of a mile wide. The west side is clear of brush and trees and supports a fairly heavy stand of coconut palms, which area is being added to, by clearing and burning the Scaevola, Noni and Tafono and setting out young palms. Followed the good trail N. and E. leaving it toward the N. side to enter which the scrub beach thicket begins and gradually occupies the entire width of the land from beach to lagoon. This scrub or dry forest consists of Scaevola, Noni, Tafono, Tournefortia with an undergrowth of Sida, Boerhaavia. Portu- laca, bunchgrass and in places, especially on E. side, Trilulus. There are quantitiess of blue, white spotted butterfly flies, small red-brown butterflies, dragonflies, and blue-black (cock-roach-parasite) wasp. In the grass and herbs are red ants, black ants, yellow flies, leafhoppers, and slender brown bugs. Lizards fairly numerous. Roll 22:1 One of the "ancient stone ruins," with bug net for comparison. (11406) This is 29 feet long, 15 feet wide and about 2 1/2 feet high, built of flat sandstone and conglomerate and coral slabs, with the inside completely filled with broken coral rocks. On each side are smaller platforms 18' x 12' x 1' high. The whole is surrounded thickly by Scaevola and is about 100 yards from