foot trail. Followed this around the south west end of the island to the village of Tumbou, by far the largest and most prosperous village seen so far in Lau, or anywhere in Fiji outside of Suva. We called on the chief, a fine big specimen of Fijian, in manner, bearing, poise and personal appearance every bit the leader and chief. He readily gave us permission to collect. The post office, located in the Morris, Hedstrom store was not open yet so posted my letters at the Chinese store next door. The famous Lakemba school is located on a hill just west of Tumbou, over- looking the village. Continued east around the island on the belt "road." The mosquitoes were very bad, hanging about one in clouds. The trail cuts across the heart of the southern peninsula, crossing a low ridge of sandstone which connects the high hill on the peninsula with the main mass. The entire shore line and a great part of the interior of the trigger-like projections are covered with coconut groves, between which and on the highland are areas of lowland forest. North of the trail the country is covered with scrub and the slopes with the usual plume grass, ferns, Casuarinas, Pandanus and weeds. Wathiwathi is a fair sized village at the east angle which the peninsula makes with the main outline of the island. Near it is a small mangrove swamp which probably helps to keep up the great swarms of mosquitoes. Just east of this village the spurs of the forehills come down close to the water's edge and there are in addition one or two isolated mound hills. Most of these are covered with grass but one in particular is densely wooded. Saw several swallowtail butterflies and a number of the large brown and yellow spiders. Quite a flight of small black beetles from the taro and weed covered flats just west of Waitambu. Several species of butterflies also abundant here. The village of Waitambu consists of 25 or 30 native huts, a small Chinese store and a substantial frame church. A small bay runs in toward it from the