interesting color. Collected samples of sulphur and a whitish deposit which someone who visited the general area described as alum.Gathered about 15 plant plant species in the Meleleuca savanna-forest and open flats of the thermal area. The ecological and flo- ristic aspects are departe Australian. The local and the Goodenough name for the hot places is "mora" (pronounced morna). My boys seemed even more wary of them than I was. Saw a fair sized dragonfly mating and the female laying its eggs at a saline lake of some acres in area. (duck feathers found on the muddy shore). A small gray dragonfly, quite strange to me , flew too low over the little water left that was left in a bubbling pond for me to net. I seldom become thirsty in the field. This morning, after 3-4 hours ex- posure to sulphur fumes, I was glad to return to the waterbag hanging under the thatched porch of the resthouse. The native gardens are in anything but full production here, but yesterday and today we have bought a fair amount of fresh foods: pumpkins. sweet potatoes (very big and very good white ones) a bunch of bananas , marble-sized red tomatoes (which Rus tells me are in vogue around New York Gnetum gne mon greens, and today some eggs. The day we landed we bought a flathead from a native fisherman . A Pteropus and a Petaurus shot last night by Rus. Four Pogonomys out from a tree today by the boys. Started last night to correct galley of my 1953 general report. Sunday May 27: Steady light rain for half an hour or so between 4 and 5 AM.: slight driz- zle as usual in the afternoon. Examined that the 1* mile map calls the Sulphur Lake, about 1/2 to 3/4 mile east of camp. The natives call it Aboma. Area of quite a few acres (perhaps 20-30 or more) of still green water deeply embayed between savanna ridges rising 100-200 feet above it. The green of paint rather than of water (did not have anything in which to take a sample); appar- ently deep. At the end of the southernmost bay the water was gray, steam rose from it, and from a distance there seemed to be movement, as of simmering or boiling. Swimming ducks, several of them, encircled the gray water, stretching their wings at times as if enjoying the warmth. Had as guide to the lake a village man whose legs were greatly enlarged with ad- vanced elephantiasis, the lower parts warty. Follows govt. track about 1/3 of way to beach, then a very faint trail through half-swampy tall rainforest ending in sage swamp and finally a belt of floating fern (Stonochlaena) in water too deep for sago. Sank through the fern over my boot tops, and no bottom in one place. Three or four of the common cuscus and Petaurus shot last night; a reddish rat and a gray mouse in traps. The latter perhaps a house mouse. Lionel returned about 1 o'clock from his examination of the mountain road to Mailolo. No bloody good he reports, with emphasis. Track up the loading spur from Saibutu skirts rock walls in places and is impassible for carriers with box loads and dangerous for the unencumbered; only a few inches wide in places. Camped at 950 mby our aneroid, which read low on Normanby. Went to 1000 m or more. Country there very rough; water distant. His camp was visited early this morning by a Mailolo man who traveled most of the way by the light of a hurricane lamp. On Tuesday Lionel will start out for Salakadi, in the interior valley, from where a track, which has been traveled by a medical patrol with box loads, reached 4000 ft. or more in crossing the mountains to the Morima coast. These are the mountains on which, from off the Morima coast the other day, we saw Araucaria trees growing. For two days relatives of our Morima boys have been in camp. Today the party, which slept at Fagululu en route, included Lik-lik's wife (covered with Sipoma). Isulele's sister, and Niko, a boy who was with us last trip and happens to be an uncle of Isulele.