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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