Roll 26:4 One of the open spaces with brackish pools S.W. side. Roll 26:5 Another of the waterways which run from near the lagoon to the beach ridge. Looking N.N.E. from beach ridge (at right angles to beach. Reef 90-125 yards wide toward S. point with moderate surf. Waterways lined with Pemphis and Scaevola. Between them are tall clumps of Buka, Tournefortia and Pua (Tafono). As one rounds S. point going E., character of beach changes. Conglomerate wall disappears, beach becomes higher, of sandstone slabs, sand and coral, surrounded by broad area of gravel with "dry forest" of Tournefortia, Scaevola, Tafono=Pua and Buka. Reef widens out to about 150 yards. Saw a rat among the outspread Buka roots. Seemed smaller and more fear- less than other rats, sitting up on its haunches until I got close. Pereplaneta roaches (both American and Australasiae), sowbugs and black ants, gray spider, pseudoscorpion and 1 sp. of landshell in or on rotten Buka logs. Roll 26:6 First lagoon entrance on east side, going east. Looking N.N.W. from ocean side toward lagoon. Roll 27:1 Same from lagoon side looking S.S.E. Length 200 yards. Width about 60 feet/ Knee deep at low tide. South beach quite bare of driftwood, what there is being timbers or planks. Back to camp along lagoon beach. Mr. Shafer informed me that he had dug up one skull, some bones and three worked stones in planting coconuts. He had also found old house ruins of stone, strange to both his Union and Ellice workmen. He also says that the two previous managers, Mr. French and Mr. Peterson, also dug up skulls. The natives put on a Tokelau Siva for our benefit. It is very simialr to that of Ellice Islands (described under Nassau). They learned some from an Ellice Island woman, which may account for that. The accompaniment is the same box pounding and there is the same accelleration of time, forearm slapping, squatting, arm and leg movement etc. In addition there is some hand slapping