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The little kawa bowls, which are made to sell to the tourists, are
like the larger ones, made of m ilo wood.
Followed Afono trail to summit and from there followed the summit
ridge west to the Vatia trail, by which I descended to Loloaloo.
Saw large rat, on way up, gnawing the bark of a dead tree. The small
lizards are not abundant, but the large black lizards are quite occasional.
Took the following pictures from a little knob just west of the Afono pass:-
Roll 45:4,5 Panorama of Pago Pago Harbor looking S.S.W. and W.S.W. (11456-7)
" 45:6 Afono Bay from the same spot, looking N.N.E. (11458)
" 46:1 Looking W. by N. along summit ridge; Filitau (1468') at right and
Maavea (1539') at left.
The first half mile of the ridge is saw-toothed pali, where it is
practically impossible to follow the skyline; but one can get around on a
ledge on the N. side, about 25 to 100 feet below. From Filitau to about
1/4 mile W. of Maavea the route followed a flat topped ridge, about 50 feet
wide and only rising and falling 20 to 30 feet in gradual undulations. This
has an open stand of moss covered trees among which I recognized Lobelias
Ohia-lehua (Metrosideros polymorpha?). The undergrowth is thin with a few
birds-nest and other ferns, monocotyledonous herbs and a Freycineti'a-like vine.
On the summit ridge the insects were fairly scarce, except spiders (whose
webs stretched everywhere), large pale craneflies and the large yellow flies.
The landshells here appear of but two spp. - both Acotanella-like - one
yellow brown, the other purple. The striped large ones and the smaller forms
live at lower elevations. Very few of the plants were in fruit or flower.
Collected a couple and some wood specimens.
Easter Sunday, April 20, 1924.
Spent day packing up four boxes of specimens, to send to the Museum, and
moving my trunks to the hold, as Mr. Beck is moving aboard and I am to change