Made nine knots an-hour between Matuku and Moala, anchoring off Maloku at about 11:45. Moala is a considerably larger island than Matuku, being triangular in shape, 8 miles on a side and with at least two peaks over 1500 feet high. The mountains rise more abruptly from the sea (at least on the north side) than on Matuka. They seem to be more extensively forested as seen from the ship. The forest appears less thick and luxuriant, however, and much of the forehills is covered with grass. Roll 53:1 Maloku Harbor, looking S. Ashore at 1:30, landing on west side of bay, in mouth in mouth of little creek edged with mangroves. The village marked on the chart is around the corner on the sea, west of the bay, their taro, sweet potatoes, and banana patches being in the valley. The streams are quite large. Up the valley on the west side. Frequent showers made collecting poor, although insect life quite abundant. Lots of moths and butterflies, large syrphid flies. Caught a series of brown weevils one sex which has a spine on the dorsum. They were in cop. on the stump of tree 297. Collected beetles, centipedes and earthworms under bark. Scale on leaves of tree 301. Landshells (small) abundant even in the lowland, but only dead large ones seen. Mr. Beck collected 33 bugs with red and gray abdomen and fuscous wings, on young coconut palm. He said there were thousands on it. Mr. Correia gave me Hippobosied fly ex pigeon. Rise and fall of tide extensive. At low tide one can walk across on the seaside of the mangrove swamp on fairly dry mud. At high tide we rowed across this area with plenty of water under the keel. Thursday, July 10, 1924. Ashore at 7:30, landing on point at east side of the bay. Up the middle ridge of the valley, a broad, fairly gradual rise with a few steep slopes,