Lehner, P. 1964 Nov. 18 Up for morning chow and the day's assignment; at 8:20 A.M. we took one raft in through the more northerly passage (low tide) and dropped Binion and Larry off on Oneaka Is. (the more northern of the two islands separated by tidal channels; Roger, Ken, George and myself went on to Kuria Island; we had to go through the southern passage and walk the boat in a long ways, finally abandoning it to native children who brought it in with the tide; we arrived on Kuria at 9:10, Ken and Roger going off to collect birds; George and I picked up the rat traps, containing one Rattus exulans and then walked to the northern end of the island with two young native boys as guides - they also showed us where all the rat traps were, indicating we might have had better luck had the children not known where they were; there are many taro patches on the island, all dug to a depth of about 10 feet, but with very little standing water; the boys pointed out all the sights for us as we looked for birds and were very anxious to ask us the English word for many objects like binocular, camera, beach, stone, rock and sand; they were very quick to learn and remembered well; they took us to see George and as we approached where George was all we could see was a beautiful grave; ironically George asked if George was dead and they said yes - he had been honored in his burial spot and the monument they had chosen as a marker - they had built a picket fence around the spot - his children had been buried behind his grave; I learned later from the schoolteacher that George had been a trader from New Zealand who had been asked to work for the government when the English took control; he had lived on the island for many years, had been a friend to all and had died only two years ago; we headed back for the (over)