Aug 23 1897 Monday Ilulua aruut. Arose at 5.30 and had breakfast at 6 A.M. The day is a beautiful one through a little wind seems white off it in rain and stuff. To be against us. I am advises to wait a little to see if the wind will freshen. So wait until 8 A.M. when we get ready to leave. See others work for our Leaving Ilulua aruut we have the formation which are fellow cliffs and gives us of a long tongue of land against the lost wind. The tide is also in our favor and we proceed as well as can be expected. On going around the point escape hour we get the free benefit of the waves which both us some. However I am says to go ahead and we luck the only and waves until 2.30 P.M. when we reach Alianaitung- nail. At 3 White and I go west a short distance to examining the Cretaceous bed.. The Cretaceous formation of this place consists of beds of more or less coarse sandstone with beds of dark shale and then banks of coral. Yellow is the color for the sand stone. A few distinct and interbedded beds of basalt also occur. We were not able to find any good fossils. Mr. White picked up a few poor emifers. The beds dips about two degrees to the west and we bore a section of