cave near S.W. point, near a small patch of coconut palms. Across a nearly level area, smooth underfoot to foot of the central plateau cliff, which we ascended at S.E. point. The island is shaped like this:- The central plateau is flat and undulating on top, elevation about 350 to 390 feet, with steep cliff sides, around. On the west these descend to the waters edge, but on the east, north and south there is a nearly level shelf of greater or less width - up to 200 to 300 yards between the foot of the talis slope and the sea, into which it drops in a 20 to 60 foot cliff. The top of the plateau is covered with very thick scrub. It is further- more criscrossed with fissures and holes which make walking extremely difficult, even dangerous. The sides are forested to the top of the talis slope, but the upper 100 feet, especially on the W. side is bare of trees for the most part, being covered with low shrub or quite bare rock. Descended to the E. shelf, near the center of which is a grove of tall cocoanut palms. Collected a number of small landshells, a few crane flies and a couple of plants. The shelf is covered with trees, many of them large and some reaching a diameter of 3 or even 4 feet. Ficus trees were plentiful, both the tall, large leaved fig and the large banyan, with its hollow, intertwined trunk, which had formed about that of a large tree. Caught a large gray snake on S.W. side. About 1 P.M. sailed across to one of three small crescent shaped islets off the E. end of Navutu iloma. Landing on a small sand beach, spent a few minutes collecting in the lowland scrub. Then across to a sand beach on the main island, near the N.E. point, where I collected another plant specimen and a number of insects sweeping glass and shrubs.