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Tuesday, July 22, 1924.
Rain continuing. Mr. Beck informed me that we would not sail until late afternoon so made another excursion up the Suva Pipe Line trail. Despite occasional drizzles and deep mud undefoooot went up trail traversed Sunday.
Caught an unusual looking milliped with long gray and red spines on the margins of the segments dorsally, crawling along trail in valley bottom, elevation 25 feet.
This time took left hand fork of trail and pipe lines. It runs west a short distance and then turns north to N.N.W. paralleling the other branch, in the next valley.
Noticed the same soft moss on the banks which collected on the stream banks on the high Moala plateau.
Caught a slender red, black and white bug, caught in spider web.
Two of the pipe lines have their intake at a small dam and the third in in another small dam a few hundred yards further on.
A great deal of anthrocyan in the new growth. Many of the young leaves of both ferns and several shrubs and trees are bright red-brown in color.
From this upper dam a small trail runs east over the ridge through a very pretty small forest to the head of the trail, coming out at the upper dam.
Followed the east fork back, collecting several plant specimens and a few insects. Reached schooner at 4 P.M. only to find that hour of departure had been postponed again - indefinitely.
This region would repay other visits, especially as several small tracks lead up the ridge.
Finished up Plant Field Notebook 4 and wrapped it up to be posted to the Museum.
Wednesday, July 23, 1924.
Visited Botanical Gardens in morning. They have a beautiful situation