Saturday Sept. 22: Glorious fine day with just enough cloud to make it a photograph- er's day. A strong squall at 5 am. Wind, what there is of it, now from the NE. Botanized some distance past Varivaria for not much profit in worthwhile plants. Twelve numbers brought the total for Sudest to over 500 to date. Ridges covered with primary rain forest go right to the mangrove there. A very good garden, one of the few seen on Sudest, photographed (bananas, manioca, sugarcane). This garden, like most in the area, unfenced. Pips in this ridgy country do do not wander far from the village of their owner. The cuscus and a Pteropus hypomelanus shot by Kim last night; a Pteropus con- spicillatus by Liklik; a Nyctimens by Rus. A net, set for the first time at this camp, yielded a Mecroglossus. Lionel went out to the reef in the canoe last night, and in the bright moon- light (a day or two past full), made a fine catch of 16 fish. Included were a tuna some 15 inches lobg, a red sea bass, a whaler shark about 2½ ft. long, sweetlips, 4 pike, rock cod, a small coral trout and a tiger bream. Fish for all to eat, plus, this evening, a young green turtle, about two feet long, bought for three sticks of tobacco from a native who had speared it. The price asked for the turtle was low; Four sticks were actually paid. Good white meat. Stocktaking of foodstuffs, by Lionel, shows that we have enough of most items on hand to last two months. Sunday Sept. 23; Strong southeaster blowing; few scuds of rain; high cloud drift still from NW. This high altitude NW wind started on Thursday. My last day in the field for this locality, and Sudest, yielded enough plants to bring the total of numbers collected at Bambuso to 202. (1254 herbarium sheets.) In number of herbarium sheets this is the best camp since Meikaiuna. Total plant numbers for Sudest is 515, which is satisfactory enough. We have been on this island five weeks and two days. At Joe Landing there was a flowering season. Not so here or at Mt. Riu Camp. Only a sprinkling in flower at these two camps. Here we have had a lot of annoying showers, especially in the morning, when I do my field work, but there has been no great amount og rain. About enough to keep the native crops flou- rishing -- as much as they do on this clayey soil. Liklik's traps, set in the primary forest a couple of nights ago, yielded this morning a beautiful rat, light russet brown in color and white (to the skin) under- neath, which looks like a Melomys. Very different from the Melomys caught on Normanby, the only other Melomys we have. Tubuga's traps gave another spiny big Rettus. Rus lifted his traps this morning. A cuscus and a Pogonomys shot by Kim last night, just behind the beach. Rus got a flying-fox. Had from the Fijian teacher's wife a very nicely baked chicken for our Sunday dinner. I was in the field when she called with it. Speaking no English, she had a quaint letter from her husband, which was souvenired and has not been seen by me. I understand it was addressed to "Dear Christian Brothers at the Bambuso resthouse." Three white men in his area, working on Sundays, must be a bit discomforting to the missionary. Monday Sept. 24: Weather as yesterday - in daylight hours. Some very heart rain sometime during the night. The day spent in packing and writing letters. I lost several hours through an attack of some queer illness which seized me after lunch. Suspect a form of indigest- ion brought on by eating two not quite ripe bananas. My second illness on the trip.