but in addition extensive masses of the sprawling emifu bushes, some of which were as high as one head but as rule from three to four feet tall. As we were leaving Blaine Island our boat also left but it was evident that we would get to Forteau before the schooner. being to the northeast of L'Anse St. Clair we saw the schooner but in the straits in a dead calm. They got to Fortean that night about nine oclock, with a huge thunder spray up in the late evening. Saturday July 16-1905. Forteau. A dark dismal day with a gale on before we set off. While at breakfast rain set in and it looked good for all day. By nine it had turned to rain and we concluded to go col- lecting on the high hill visited last evening. The going was most difficult through the sprawling emifu bushes and when we arrived at the cave tops it almost blew us away. Cold and damp with the high wind it was