Also Manganese deposits. Ancient fortified city on one of the hills. Normal rainfall 60 inches, but so far this year there had been 90 inches. Mr. Beck brought in a rod millipod and several small beetles from a rotten log. Correia furnished two walkingsticks and a milliped, Mrs. Correia two small Hippoboscid beetles from a Kingfisher. Friday, September 19, 1924. Kanathea Island. Underway from Mango at 4 P.M. Off Kanathea at 6 A.M. The island is of volcanic material, without the usual limestone cliffs, sloping up rather gradually from the beach, which is sand backed by a narrow flat. The highest peak is 830 feet, the center one of three forming a triangle at the N.W. end. The beach and lower slopes are covered with coconut palms, which run up the valleys. Above the coconut zone is grass, scrub and knots of some little extent of lowland open forest, especially capping the peaks and on the slopes of some of the valleys. Opposite a deep indentation in the reef on the north side, a long wharf has been constructed which reached to deeper water off the mud flat and reef. Here on the beach are located copra drying and storing sheds, native houses and the manager's residence, on both sides of a small stream. Although the manager, W. A. Smith, could not let our party shoot birds, he was quite willing to have us look over the island and himself pointed out the trails. He said the island was producing over 600 tons of copra, which he hoped would increase to 800 when the young trees came into bearing. He also had 700 head of cattle on the island, raising them for the Suva trade. Previous to the coconut groves, both cotton and sugar were successively raised. A few "rain trees" (No. 574) in valleys. Abundance of guava, which is considered a bad pest. Other weeds including Cassia (kau mothe) valuable be- cause of its nitrogen fixing bacteria. Beautiful streams of clear water in every valley.