articles and borrowed a pocket compass for use on Savaii. S.S. "Resolute" off harbor all day. We shipped the Tahiti crew back to Papeete by her. Spent evening writing up notebook to date. Presented Governor Richardson with one of the three sets of Bishop Museum publications relating to Samoa and Tonga. Tuesday, April 29, 1924. Spent day on schooner and helping Capt. Stenbeck get together new crew. Heavy rain and uncertain time of departure prevented field trip. Underway for Savaii at 5 P.M. carrying Mr. and Mrs. Beck, Mr. and Mrs. Correia, Miss Anne Kearns and two children, Frances and Monaca Flaherty (these three just passengers to Safune), and a new crew of Samoans, Fijians and Niue men, numbering 6; Capt. Stenbeck and myself. Wednesday, April 30, 1924. Off N.E. end Savaii at daybreak. This region remarkably like slopes of Mauna Loa (on small scale), with occasional cones and a broad field of fresh (1905-11) lava, running down slopes from a crater to sea. Ran into Matauta Bay and called at Fagamelo on the Resident Commissioner Mr. G. Bigg-Wither, a very pleasant, well informed man. On to Safune where we anchored 9:30 A.M. On way out of Matautu Bay bumped a coral head without dam- age, (probably the spot marked two fathoms on the chart). Landed Mr. and Mrs. Beck and guests at 10. Mr. and Mrs. Correia and I went ashore at 12 and called on Flaherty, who is making moving pictures in this region, directly after dinner. Beach with usual purple flowered Ipomoea pescapri and grass. Village with coconut palms, bananas, breadfruit, oranges, mangos, and a few lowland trees including hau. About two miles up a trail running S. and S.S.E. behind Safune, with native boy, Imu, as guide. From him obtained the following Samoan names