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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where he was skinning birds. Sunday, August 24, 1924. N. W. Kambara. Ashore at 9 A.M. and attended church at Tokalay village. Very few present, many of the people of the village having gone to Komo to attend a wedding. The service was essentially like that at Oneata (except the baptism.) Walked around to Lomati village on the beach. Roll 62:2. Cemetery at Tokalau, Kambara. I took this view because of the (11526) superficial similarity between these walled up graves and those on Sydney and Hull islands. Roll 62:3. Interior of the church, Lomati. This is the neatest and most (11527) attractive church seen to date in Lau. The windows are of purple and orange glass; the rafters are hung with cloth banners. Two or three swinging lamps. Roof thatched, but walls of board. Roll 62:4. Typical source of water supply on these limestone, springless (11528) islands, Lomati. Cement tank, with galvanized iron roof and gutters to catch the water. Ascended the plateau wall by the trail up from Lomati. Roll 62:5. Looking N. across the native gardens toward Delai oloi (470'). (11529) Climbed the west face of Delai oloi. On the N.W. end of Kambara the reef sweeps in to the beach, as if the north end of the island, including the high peak, had been a later addition. The reef off the N. end is not con- tinuous, but consists of broken up, but closely set coral heads. Roll 62:6. The reef at the N.W. end of Kambara, showing how it runs to shore, (11530) while the line off the N. end is continued by coral heads. Taken from near the summit of Delai oloi, elevation about 400 feet, looking west. Climbed to the summit. Think that the Delai oloi mass, which is elevated 250 to 350 feet above the limestone plateau, is of volcanic origin, and that it was elevated quite some time subsequent to the elevation of the rest of the island. This idea would be greatly strengthened if the samples of rock taken from the summit are positively basalt, as I believe them to be. Time element