L.24. P. 13 Door at either end. Come through the remains of a rather extensive garden as I drew near it. The E-W ridge all while I traveled was partly in the main divide between the Fly of the Aremaea Basin. Pleasant Ridge to heart along once clear of the mass of arching came at its SE end. Saw a large many & heard another. Later collected some more butterflies, lying In afternoon went out to look at the low wooded area between the canoe road and the small garden half way there. Shot a scrub hen. I learned to day that some if not all of the boys have a distinctive sign or mark that he cuts on the bark of trees. He printed out the mark of every the bird boys. So I had him make his (it was Taikendo). His mark is 1/2, the back between the 1 lines being cut out. Temperatures here range between 67° and 88° mostly. Tues. Oct. 20. This morning after measuring the specimens for the boys to skin I went over to the big ridge along the north track & turned east. Found that the ridge gave place to low-ground carrying tall fruit & a tidal creek -- the same I reached October 3rd (see previous letter). Followed down for a way & found a branch entering from the left [the one found by Press on Oct. 3. All right to N+ NE of the ridge is a big swamp. The grandest fence was finished this afternoon. It amounts to 150 yards and has 20 steel traps as furniture. It will probably be days before anything gets caught by it, because things will have to settle down after all the noise & activity that went into making it. Brass went botanizing across on Stork Island this morning. He reports it alluvial & subject to occasional flooding. Wed Oct 21. Breakfast low down at 6 a.m. A curcus (spotted) was shot by Borro this morning. Went up canoe road to native house which I photographed. Had a look inside. The place divided lengthwise into 3 rooms, a door at each end and one or two wider like openings between the rooms. Entries to side galleries by notched piers under there. Some pig-needle hanging up in one gallery. Outside a number of young coconut