Maraima detailed one of his committee, an elderly, mustached man named Nasona, to accompany me as a guide. At about 10:30 we landed at the abandoned coconut plantation pf Maadadona in Sunhia B ay (the whole locality seems to be called Gadagegogá), and, walking inland for 20 minutes came to the remains of the establishmentto which Cecil Abel is said to havexgafterradx re- treated after the Japanese invasion with all the females of Kwato Mission. (The story in circulation is that he ran it as a brothelfor American soldiers). At any rate a sma; galvanized hut, in ruinoud condition,remained im a sea of prickly spear grass (Chrysopogpn acilularis). That, according to Masona was the only building anywhere near the primary forest. The Rogea people when working their food gardens and coffee, live in houses on the beach and walk inland. Saw no primary forest and conditions were very dry. Signs of a few cattle runnin f wild. After lunch of fried kg kingfish, caught on a towline, we left Cadagedoga at 12:15. Went past Guaugurina Bay, the-low mountain ehores of which carry what appears to be primary forest and no native population, to the next bay. Good looking forest at the head of this bay, near Biabia village, but the rest house is at Deling on a narrow, dry point of land two or three miles from the good forest. Resrhouse well habitable, but the drought has made the village short of water, which has to be carried from a creek towards the head of the bay, at least a mile away. Left Dolina at 5:05, proceeded west along what is known as the Susu Coast, and anchored off Modewa village, in Modewa Bay, at 4:30 PM. Big village with many coconutson a curving steep beach off dark sand which would be hard to land on in the southeast season. Low mountains, dovered for the most part appqrw 1000-1400 feet close to the shore. Conditions are droughty, but the locality is the most promising I have seen on this coast and I will see what it carries for me. It is said that many people from the Milne Bay area were evacuated to Modewa during the military occupation of World War II. A Chinese-native half-caste named Aubrey Ah Chee is reported to have a trading station three or four miles west along the coast towards Susu Island. Ah Chee has a boat which could take me back to Samarai if Decem- ber 25, the date I have arranged for the "Sirius" to come back for me, should prove too late. Modewa is in LMS mission territory; a native teacher is stationed there. Tuesday Ded. 11: Heat of a dry day somewhat modified by a strong southeast wind. Some cloud but no promise of rain. We would have found if hard to land on this beach with a wind testerday like there was today. Boys building tables and otherway making camp. Inspected the village in the morning and in the afternoon walked west to the moutn of the river, about 3/4 to 1 mile. Wygg village, according to a rather flash individual who attached himself to me, has a popula- ton of 160 people. Houses in a single widely spaced line on each side of thm a wide walk running parallel with the beach and probably half a mile in length. Houses thatched with sago leaf and walled with sago leafsheaths for the best part. The walk edged on both sides with crotons, Hibiscus, and bulbous plants (Grinum, Hymennocallis). A new LMS mission church of concrete, fibrocement, and galvanized iron roof, is as yet unopened. The old church was burnt down. Services and school are being held in the shade of a tree. Nothing outstanding in most of the rather few people I saw, A good deal of sippoma skin disease. Canoes seen are of the outrigger type. An old whaleboat being rebuilt under a leaf shed (for oauching in "1957"). One thatched house had a glazed, unmovable window at one endand the regular shutters elsewhere. Ernie left for Samarai at 5:30 am. He wanted good light to see his way through the reefs of the entrance to the bay. Wed. December 12: Southeast wind somewhat moderated from yesterday, but still too strong doe rain on this coast. Some thunder in afternoonin the direction of the Cloudy Mts., to the NW.