Walked half an hour inland along govt track to Maiyavillage, where the track forks, one branch going towards Saibutu, the other towards Iamelele No. 2. Talked with a village elder who told me the country in the direction of Iamelele 2 was all "buch" (rain forest, and so I found it in the distance I travelled — about a mile. Tall secondary rain forest with one or two grassy patches marking the sites of recent gardens. One small patch of sago swamp; very tall, smooth trees; sago had been made there in the wet sea- son. The old man informed me that there was "lei" or grass country in the direction of Saibutu, and that the only good bush was under the mountains. Will probably explore that tway tomorrow. A Mucuna with big green flowers (like an uncollected species on Normanby), lianies of the Apocynaceae and Leguminosae, and a couple or three common ground ferns were the best of today's collecting. Saibutu, so pronounced by men of the village who visited camp this afternoon, was the base of Shaw Mayer (in the 1930's), who called it on his labels "Thibutu, Paralulu Dis- trict". It is in Awabula District. mission Lionel discovered in the/village this afternoon a boy of eight or ten who, about a week ago, fell into some hot part of the thermal area. His left leg badly burned or scalded and a mass of rotten flesh. Poor little fellow lying on a crude pata-pata, his leg flexed, and his whole body a-tremble with pain or nerves, when I saw him. Will send word to Mapawoiwa tomorrow; start the boy in that direction on a litter, and suggest that Crosby send one of his trained men to meet the case. One of the bats sent by Crosby yesterday was a Tadarida, at least a small free- tailed bat, and apparently the first record for east of the mainland. A big day for Rus. Four cuscus and four Petaurus shot last night, plus a reddish small bandicoot. A fair- sized, rather bristly reddish rat in traps (Rattus). Red coloration of the rat and bandi- coot is perhaps a stain from of some kind; the soil here, however, is gray and sandy. Iamelele #2 — Saibutu Thursday May 24: Thunderclouds up the valley in middle of afternoon and a sprinkle of rain in camp. Visited Saibutu (Taibutu of the 1-mile map) village, leaving camp at 7:50, reaching Saibutu in 1½ hours actual walking , and returning to camp at 3:30. Passed through Naiya village (12 houses), Ubulia-a-1 (5 houses), skirted Awudanidami where a road to Iamelele #2 branched off, Nuokoka (3 houses). Saibutu itself had 10 [illegible] small houses and a big new church, Malamodau hamlet, on the steep high bank of the Awabula stream, 3 houses. The position of two or three hamlets could be seen higher on the steep slopes. (See small tablebook for route.) Only Malamodau (with a difference in spelling) appears on the 1-mile map. This map very inaccurate. It gives the altitude of Saibutu as 200-300 ft.; actual elevation must be at least twice that. A gradual climb for about an hour after one passes Naiya. A 200-300 ft. hill immediately to the north of our resthouse is not on this map at all. A good resthouse at Saibutu. Road from here to there lined nearly all the way with an avenue of tall coconut palms, planted most likely under government orders. They bring danger to the traveler from falling nuts, but provide the people with food and a surplus of nuts with which some copra is made. Saibutu Malamodau both had rough platforms from which rose three slanting stone monoliths; the structures called tuamaka (or a name like that) on Goodenough Island. Photographed the Malamodau examples, which were good. Talked with the mission teacher, a most unimpressive runt from Bwaidoga (Mud Bay), covered with sipoma, who lives at Iamelele #1 and visits this place. He had been to the Mallolo mountain villages on two occasions. Road from Saibutu good, he said, but the journey takes nine hours. A local native reported the road as bad, only about a foot wide,