in some places. Saw one or two small caves in the face. The limestone, of which it is composed varies from dark gray, frequently with a bluish tinge, to light cinerous or brown with a pink or purplish tinge. But in pl[illegible]ces there are deposits of dark red-brown limestone resembling bits of putty in a crack. The gray-white butterfly with black markings and the white "tournefortia moth" with red and black dots are both common among the beach trees. The slope is covered with lowland and beach trees and shrubs - about all the different species collected in Lau to date, but nothing new in fruit or flower. Further south the beach becomes narrower, in places reduced to just the undercut shelf. This allows walking at low tide. Small gray Asilid (?) fly here on the sand beaches much resembles in size, color and actions the sp. caught on the lagoon beach of Wake. A trail cuts across the S.W. point, through a grove of coconuts on a level area, leaving a limestone mass on the right toward the sea. On the left towers the high, rough, wooded cliff. There are several small isolated limestone rocks just off the broad steep sand beach near here. The sand is underlain by a coarse sandstone. (See sample taken). The yellow composite and a tall climbing coarse grass common, the latter (not yet collected) occurs on nearly all the wooded islands. It attains a height of 6 to 8 meters in places, climbing to the tree tops. Met a crowd of girls and women about to start fishing in S.W. bay. From here a trail cuts across the south end flat which is covered with coconut palms and littorel trees and shrubs running near the base of the cliff. The ridge is lower, but no less perpendicular here. The trail is covered with a green algul growth. (See sample taken.) Just before entering Ondu village saw an old man binding the stoms of the plume grass on the outside of his house (set apart from village), with coconut sinnet. Ondu is a clean little village of about 15 native huts, a frame building