Journal of Edwin H. Bryan, Jr. while with the Whitney Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History on the schooner France, February to October 1924
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replaces the grass on the upper foothills and ridge summit, although the plume grass continues to the very top. Fine view from ridge summit. The greater portion of the eastern slope is grass land, the trees being confined to pockets in the valley and clumps on the upper slopes. Coconut palms and lowland plants in the valleys and mangrove and littoral trees along the beach. The cross island trail follows down a ridge to the south side of the bay. The village of Galligarue to the S.E. has at least a white red-roofed church. Comparatively little cultivation except patches of taro in the valley bottoms. Left the trail and worked along ridge, which is narrow and steep in places and thickly covered with shrubs and trees, to the summit (1212'). Small flat landshells rather abundant on leaves, also found one large white shell, and picked up a few dead ones off the ground. The summit of Koro Levu has the plume grass, yellow composite, ferns, weeds, and trees on lower ele- vations. Collected a quantity of small Diptera, wasps, bees, leafhoppers, and small beetles by sweeping grass, ferns, shrubs and the yellow composite on the way down. Mrs. Correia had collected a number of earwigs and roaches on board the schooner. Sunday, July 6, 1924. Ngilligilli (1262) and north-east end of the island. Ashore at about 8:45, landing on N. end of harbor. Over a small hill to the valley in which the village of Lomati is situated according to the chart (H.O. 413). The village has long since disappeared, there being no signs of houses among the cocoanut palms which fill the lower part. The reason for moving the village about a mile further north is probably the filling up of the bay with mangrove trees and mud. There are, however, numerous orange, mango, breadfruit trees