Carried all these down the cliff to the ship and returned in the after- noon to the plateau with the camera. Roll 69:2 General view of the "cavo" from the west side. (11564) Roll 69:3 Close up of the remaining skulls and piles of long bones. (Those I (11565) piled up in sorting through the material). The large stick in the foreground is a "club" with which Nacllamara said these victims were despatched. A native told me however that the skeletons had been buried and were of Fijins of the "olden time" who lived in the nearby village on the plateau. My own observations leave me not too great faith in either story. The skulls do not appear to be very old - they could scarcely have lasted 50 years in their present environment. And while a few bore the fractured skull mark of having been hit on the head - the majority - from children to aged, toothless, men and women were in good condition. The entire mass was so jumbled about that no com- plete skeletons could be collected with certainty and even the jaws and skulls are only approximately matched up. Roll 69:4 The buli and his son, the future Buli with typical plateau vegeta- (11566) tion being burned off. Roll 69:5 Looking east from the highest volcanic part of the central plateau (11567) toward the east limestone ridge. Mr. Beck caught a brown bug and large red ant. Collected several "kutu" (head lice) from a native's hair. Mrs. Correia turned over a scorpion some of the sailors had caught on shore. Very few mosquitoes but house flies very abundant and troublesome. Hicks, the engineer, who also shoots birds, did not return to the schooner in the evening. He was found (lost) by some natives and brought back at 10 P.M.