coconut palms on each side. This zone of coconuts, in fact continues almost uninterruptedly around the entire margin of the island. Vakano is a moderate size village, fronting a broad mud flat which extends from shore to reef and is dry below 1/4 tide. The village has a Chinese store. The natives should be well off, judging by the extent of the coconut palms loaded with nuts, which surround the village. The mud flat continues nearly the entire length of the north side. The beach is steep, but the flat is low and sandy with a broad zone of coconut palms. Nassangulau is located on the first stream west of Vakano. It is quite a good size village with two stores, one Chinese and the other owned by a white trader and presided over by a Fijian. The village seemed more indus- trious than the others, the tap tap of samusamu (tapa) beating resounding from every quarter of the village. Quite a long sandy stretch from here to the base of Mt. Goodenough, where the trail turns abruptly south. This peak rises very abruptly on both sides with a terrace about half way up. The lower platform is much larger than the upper, rising in a high cliff from just behind the beach. The rocks at the base are limestone. Judging by the luxuriant covering of trees, the whole may be upraised limestone. The beach at the north-west point is of salb-sandstone and sand. The trees are of the lowland forest type. Saw some very large specimens of Hernandia peltata. South along a sand beach and extensive coconut zone off the mouth of a valley. Then up the side of a limestone bench which rises in a rough cliff from the sea. This is the cliff which is full of caves and on the other (S.) end of which Mr. Steward's house is located. Large patch of bamboo along bank of small stream. Field of milkweed with several species of butterflies:- the Monarch, the black species with