itch, which an application of 612 stick repellant soon subdued upon my return to the boat. One of the boat boys shot & beautiful greenish ground pigeons which Don calls "Nicobar Pigeon. We anchored off Madau Creek about 5:45 AM and left about 10 Okwasas native plantation, about a mile up the bay on the east coast of Madau Island. The island merely a sand spit about a hundred yards wide at this point, planted with coconuts. Trees bear well, though neglected, but the copra being turned out is very poor and was rejected, for sorting, by Don. Left Okwassas at 10 o'clock and anchored off Munieveho resthouse and canoe landing about o'clock . Several canoes at the landing, which is a coral knoll some 10 ft. high, con- nectcd with the land by a good causeway of mangrove sticks and duckwalk of old canoe outrig- gers etc. Two hamlets - the larger, of about 6 houses, called Muniveo, the smaller - about a third of a mile inland on goodlooking red soil derived from coral. Some old gardens clearing and two producing gardens, unit mainly tall forest which is perhaps pri- mary. Ground elevated not more than 20-30 feet. The people have a plantation on the west cost of the island. They are producing some copra, also fishing for trochus shell. Only one old woman in the hamlets when we arrived. Many old orange trees with a fair crop of unripe fruit. Some bush lemon trees, one tangerine, and several soursops, a so-called "cherry" tree (?), etc. Left Munivea about 2 pm and anchored in Kwaiapan Bay at six. EE wind much moderated. Rus! boys swatted 36 Ascelliscus with switches last night. We are so very short of batteries that very little jacking can be done for the rest of our stay on the island. Saturday Nov. 17 - Sunday 18th" Fine rainless 48 hours. Fairly southeaster still blowing on Saturday; Sunday was calm. Lionel and I on excursion to Lului with Don Neate. Left Kulumadau Creek in the very small launch "Bagau" (devil) at 1:20, with a punt in tow to carry the boys and gear. Passed through Kwaikapan Bay, across Monai Bay, through the very narrow Kwagai Passage, and arrived at Kwaigai village at 4:10. We were kept back by the southeaster. Left the boats at Kwaigai, where Don had boys waiting, and walked overland to Lului. Good track opened up about two months ago by Don for communication with a copper prospecting show which his father has at Lului (a second, perhaps better, show a mile or two further down the coast at ). The country steep , and towards Lului very rocky. Climbed to about 400 feet in the usual up and down progression of New Guinea; steps of round timber, and even hand rails in the worst places, made the going easy. The usual procedure is to send baggage by canor or flattle, but the sea too rough for this and our beds and food had to be carried. Lului (probably the type locality for the "lullulae" species and subspecies of mammals collected years ago by Meek) is the name of a former village now applied to Neate's mine and camp in a little bay, screened by reef, between two rock, goredted headlands. A very comfortable low shack of galvanized iron and palm leaf stands under the shade of a great, spreading loolooila (Calophyllum ino phylum ) tree on the very edge of the white sandy beach and not a foot above high water mark. A typical hut of the Australian bush. One could almost imagine the smell of cooking corned beef in it. There is a thatched tool house and two thatched houses for the three boys presently working at the mine (Kropan vil- agers who have their families with them). A small creek dammed by sand washed up during the southeast season, enters the little bay, between the houses, Almost immediately behind , the mountains rise very steeply. Several acres of the face of the range, up to about 200 feet, have been cleared to expose the workings, and planted recently with sweet potatoes. About 100 feet up the slopes is the entrance to a collapsed drive; Above that about another hundred feet is a 28-ft. shaft which cuts the load on the underlie. A recent shipment of two 5-ton parcels of ore assayed 10%. This not payable. Neate apparently intends to develop the show in the hope of better values. It was opened up many years ago who blew himself to pieces while dynamiting fish. In the forest on the creek at about 400-500 feet, was a drive about 100 ft. deep in which Lionel and the boys swatted four very big-ared Hipposideros now to the col- lection (He had jacked a Pteropus hypomelanu s the night before near camp, and downed an Embolloneural).