tapa were fastened. The dye - called kasa, brown in color and made from the bark of the Lauci (Alurites moluccana), is applied with bits of cloth in the form of a swab. When rubbed with a back and forth horizontal movement the high places only take the dye (along the design). Eleven of the women were doing the work, one was bossing the job and one was mixing kava for the others. Crowd of boys of various ages playing association football in an open space - "village green". Stopped in at the Morris, Hedstrom Ltd. (this branch is called "Lau Traders") store which is also the post office. Called on the chief of the island to see two fine canoe models which he had. Both were beautifully finished, but too large and too expensive to tempt me. Learned that the goats in Aiwa had been put there by the chief who "owned" the island, recently deceased. Stopped a moment at the Hospital which is located just across the creek from the rest of the village on E. side. Collected along road toward Wathiwathi, catching a swallowtail butter- fly. The plume grass is called nasau. Collected a specimen of vutukana (Barringtonia edulus) in fruit and flower. Returned along road through village and around the S.W. end along the beach. The beach is here underlain by, or composed of, slab sandstone, ex- cept for a short stretch of undercut limestone shelf. Aboard at 5:30. Thursday, September 4, 1924. Bat Cave Lakomba. Vanua Masi. Ashore at 6:45 and visited bat cave near Mr. Steward's house. The cave is in the west end limestone ridge and goes down 40 feet or so with a width at the bottom of 25 feet and length of 60. Succeeded in catching about a dozen of the small reddish-brown to fuscous bats. Sample of guano.