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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150 to 200 feet high. It lies along the beach and is separated from the lime- stone ridge by a depression and low ridge. Several small patches of coconuts, cultivated plots, and breadfruit trees near by. Small sand beach opposite the boat passage through the reef. The ridge is covered with a small grove of Casuarina trees and the usual grass, weeds, ferns, Pandanus, and scrub, - principally low rewà. Collected a rock sample from outcrop. Roll 66:3. Looking west from the top of the volcanic ridge across (11547) wooded depression and low ridge to N.P. limestone cliff. The grass in the foreground is not quite typical as it has recently been burned off. Numerous beetles of various species on the trunk and dry leaves of a fallen breadfruit tree. Large bluish Stratiányid flies also about the trunk. Caught some small brown and white moths at rest on the tips of their wings on a milo leaf. The wings were folded back along body and the body and legs were high in the air. This bay with its groves of coconuts etc., looks like an old village site (although the natives say there has been no village there.) In the midst of the cultivated patches are two small native huts, one in good condition and partly filled with yams. While eating lunch near the beach, a canoe landed there containing a man and two boys. Landshells were in the lowland on milo leaves etc. and even found them on coconut palms. Returned over the same trail, up the cliff and across N. basin. Met Mr. Beck here. He had found a cave containing some bone fragments. The only pieces worth saving was a lower jaw. Caught another male and female Phasnid. Mr. Beck also caught a female. The low running herb with white flowers, orange fruit and violet-like leaf locally common here.