engine was started with a roar and we set out, very cautiously, for Imelele beach. Skipper told me he did not know the "passage". I was told later that some time ago he ran a vessel on the reefin these Iamelele waters. Mud Bay tinged brown with mud from the hills, and much driftwood afloat. Anchored off beach at 8: 8:30. Rain began as the cargo was loaded. Got away at 10:15 A wet, rough, comfortless of 8 3/4 hours brought us to Kedidia Plantation (Norman Evennett) in Gomwa Bay about 7 PM. Having no leadline, we could not go in to Deidei in the dark. A flushdecked ketch 60 feet long and carrying about 300 bags of copra, the "Betty Ann" has no accommodation for passengers. There is a permanent awning over the tiller and after hatch, a canvas sheet over the forward or main hatch. Most of our cargo was stacked on the hatch covers, where there was some wetting by rain. There was room aft for our chairs. After a time Rus, terribly seasick, lay flat on his back on the deck, where seas thoroughly wet him twice. Lionel piloted us into Kedidia, where we were invited ashore by Norman Evennett and had a meal and slept in his small two-storied house. Norman, an edicated half-caste, quite well off financially, is living with a halfcaste woman by whom he has two bastard sons (small children). Very hospitable. House half native. Norman half drunk on beer and rum which arrived two evenings ago from Samarai. Empty bottles were strewn on the grass where thrown out the front door. Another halfcaste, Tommy Roccia, was there - sober. Norman who inherited his father's estate three years ago, bought Kedidia for 8000 pounds; 400 acres of bearing coconuts. Said to be difficult to work, and not properly run by Norman, who is not famed for his energy. Plants are on low sandy ground which had to be drained. Trees well grown and apparently bearing fairly well. No wharf; very gradual sloping beach; anchored in three fathoms; sandy weedy bottom, at least close to beach. Monday July 2: We were astir as soon as we could see, boarded the Betty Ann, and by 8 o'clock had everything ashore at deidei, only about a mile c. SE across Gomwa Bay from Kedidia. Sent collections and surplus stores on to Samarai. Wrote Buntings that we wished to be in Samarai not later than Monday 9th; they have advised that they have booked us for Misima on Steamships Trading Coy's "Kari"due to leave Samarai "about the middle of July." Norman Evennet had agreed to take us to Samarai from Deidei, but his vessel, the "Maimera", is laid up with a broken gear case. Rus went promptly to bed with symptoms of pneumonia; taking acromycin. Better, and eating this evening, but took no sundowner rum. This afternoon Lionel walked down the coast to the RC mission at Budoia and arranged with Father Atchison for a charter of the mission 55-ft. launch "St. Paul" to take us to Samarai on the 9th -- to be here to load the evening of the 8th. Price of the charter still to be determined; better left to Buntings, who know about such things. Five Pipistrellus brought in by two small boys, three of the bats very young A real wet day. Almost constant rain, some of it very heavy, from about 9 AM to present time(7:45)PM. Camp is set and the mammal boys have traps out. Tuesday July 3:Light rain before dawn; fine but generally dull and overcast after that. Botanized down the coast and visited the Catholic Mission at Budoia, about 1 3/4 miles distant according to the 1-mile map. Was well received by Father Atchison, priest in charge, and a very young priest there since February. Both from Melbourne. Atchison has been 10 years in the country and 6 years at Budoia. Has visited the Mission of the Sacred Heart territory inland from Yule Island as far as Obiobi in the Kuni country. Told me that Brother Paul, whom we knew in 1933, is still alive and at Kubuna; "Brother George is in disgrace again," having lost another boat and been sent inland to Onongo by the bishop, where he will not be able to do any more damage. Budoia is a Sacred Heart mission. Saw only the priest's house. Comfortable place with hatted roof (which needed a wash). Only a small gathering of plants, but it included a red Mucuna (D'Albertis Creeper)