7 Friday Sept Fine day after a little early drizzle. Callanan's "Polyanna", un charge of Lionel, anchored at Loe Landing, about three o'clock in the afternoon. When gear and stores were loaded it was too late to proceed to Rambuso. Callanan is sick at Madua Bay, apparently gall stone trou- ble. Said to be a man of 56; ex-miner of Misiam (and North Queensland. Seems to have done well post-war at trading; owns two fair-sized boats; has recently (this year) bought all the Catholic Mission small plantations for 4000 pounds. Is just becoming establishedat Madana Bay. The Polyanna is a trip 45-foot cabin cruiser, with greatly flared bows; was built in Cairns and used there as a fishing boat (line fishing). As we were talking after dinner a local native rushed up to the resthouse with the information that a big crocodile was swimming in the nearby creek. Said beast, 7 ft. 4 in. long, was shot by Lionel with BB. Rus will get the skin (valued at about 6 pounds) to make shoes and a bag for his wife. Saturday Sept. 8: Left Joe Landing at 6:45 am and reached Rambuso at 8:30. Smooth trip. Ran down the Gold Rush Channel inside the offshore barrier reef to where it ends at the site of old Bowla village, then into the open sea to an opening in the reef opposite the mouth of Rambuso or Proclamation Creek. A snug little harbor here. Anchored off a narrow gray gravel beach in about four fathoms (mud bottom), tied the stern to a stump ashore, and could almost step onto the land. Good solidly built resthouse and barracks right on the edge of the sea. Resthouse roof looks as if it might leak, however. The thin leaf bases of the saga palm used here, and throughout the Louisiades, for wall material. Weather proof and durable. Seen from the sea, the Rambuso locality looks very promising. All rain forested hills except for a few native garden clearings, obvious second growth, and one or two small grass patched. Almost continuous belt of mangroves along the shore. Tall mangrove forest of Bruguiera, Excoecaria, Carepa, etc. immediately behind the rest- house. A rickety, rotten catwalk several hundred yards in length leads from the resthouse along the shore directly to the head of the bay, where there is a small village on a steep small hill. Excellent running water in Rambuso Creek, in the mangroves about 100-150 yards from the resthouse. Were visited in early evening by the fijian teacher in charge of the local Metho- dist Mission and all its stations on the island. He had just returned from a visit to Piron Island in a small dinghy. Pleasant, big young fellow . Has been here three years and has two years to go. Not sure that he will return after going back to his home. Married and his wife lives here. Lionel tells me that these native teachers give at least five years of their life to the mission without pay. The Fijian has not yet learned the Sudest language. Uses Misima language and the local pidgin English in his work. Has about 40 children in school at Rambuso. Sunday Sept 9: Overcast day with some very light rain; sultry; only about an hour of SE wind in the morning; still after that.Thunder to the north, over the sea, in afternoon. Big bank of dark cloud conceals Rossel Island. It looks wet over there. Started field work with a circuit to the head of the bay, through the village there (where the missionary lives, and has a small wharf0, into the gardens behind the village where we got unto small tracks that led nowhere; back to the village, then west through the forest to the coast at the church. No decent track for any distance. Had directions from the Fijian teacher. Natives too busy sitting inverily do when a stranger comes along. A semi-swampy coastal plain between the hills and the mangroves about the mouth of the creek. Tall forest there in which Pterocarpus