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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green fruit is called rewa or vasa (Cerbera odollam). Two other common trees associated with the coconut and broadfruit in the lowlands between the villages are ivi (Inocarpus edulus) and dawa (Pometia pinnata). They look very much alike and both have mango-like leaves. Quite a number of Tournefortia trees along beach. Caught a Tournefortia moth (with red and black dots on white wing), the first one caught in Fiji. Correia gave me a robust spider with light gray abdomen and short black legs, which he said had a nest made of leaves on which it was sitting like a bird. Discovered a kawa bowl and large wooden "pig" bowl half buried in sand on beach. Dug them out and brought them on board only to find that they had been purposely buried to season the wood and give it a black color. Had to return them. Tuesday, August, 5, 1924. South-west and western portions of Fulanga. Ashore at 6:40. Over pass and west along trail to Muneraki. Then along sand beach and undercut shelf around S.W. point. This S.W. point is a steep cliff gray limestone, streaked with red-brown and white, and rising abruptly from the sea to a height of 50 or 60 feet. The "uplift" or "upheaval" spoken of in the pilot book may perhaps apply to this, but more likely applies to the higher cliff of limestone, containing caves, behind the village of Honethaki. That also has patches of red-brown (some almost pink) limestone. The west side is again a sand and coral pebble beach, underlain by limestone and coral. Be- hind the beach is the usual thicket of littoral vegetation:- Scaevola, Tourne- fortia, beach legume = tangeos (with ovate leaves). pandanus, tree with orange berry, tree with small hard brown berries in saucer-like rosette of leaves; No. 442 (which I perhaps collected before); "puapua" = busubua (Guttarda speciosa), of Samoa and elsewhere; No. 399 and 398; Legume with large flat