to the right, taking the large stream with it, still navigable for motor boats, even here. The pipo lines (three in number) and trail cross on a small bridge and continue to the N. and N.N.W. with the forest covered hills just ahead. Passed a good sized patch of fairly large banana plants. The leaves seem badly colored with fungus, but saw no "bunchy top." Soil changes from brown-cinereous soapstone and stream carried sediments to a distinct red-brown heavy clay as the trail leaves the valley botton and ascends a ridge. The vegetation also changes to the beginnings of rainforest, staghorn fern nudergrowth - although the Köster's curse continues. Near the top of the ridge the pipes pass through a short tunnel while the trail goes over the top. Went through the tunnel, finding that the red clay continues for some depth - all the way through the tunnel - becoming quite moist and very slippery at a depth of 50 feet or so. Caught a moderately large gecko in a valve box. Down other side of ridge into a pretty wooded valley. Trail forks - as does the valley and stream and pipe lines. Followed right hand fork which goes approximately N. by W. The slopes of the valley are covered by a fairly luxurious forest. In the bottom a little stream roars over rapids and water- falls. Saw several new and interesting trees, herbá and ferns. Soil again loses its red color and becomes grayish to slate-brown. The general types of forest, the coolness and pleasant dampness, the trail, cut in the side of the valley, and most everything except the quantities of Köster's curse, remind one of the ditch trails on Maui. The trail rises steeply up a bluff and is assisted by wood or log steps and a wire cable. Up to this point the trail could be traversed on horseback. Roll 56:1 Looking down the wooded valley from this rise on the trail. A number of brown, white spotted butterflies about the blossoms of