108 A TOUR AMONG THE ISLANDS 



sake " Nightingale flycatcher." Swallows and weavers 

 feeding on the " Sami " gnats were also plentiful, and 

 small lizards were seen. 



No Lepidoptera were notedj although a Belonogaster 

 wasp was seen, which is known to feed its grubs on cater- 

 pillars. Two species of carpenter bees which bore into 

 wood, and small ants, were seen, but there were no Glossina 

 on Maungwe. 



By the time we had finished with this little island 

 all threatenings of storm had passed off, and we went 

 on happily to Enkusa Islet, merely a reef of red spongy 

 rock for the most part broken into pebbles, with a 

 dense growth of ambatch bushes at one end, inhabited 

 by weaver birds. There was a great growth of a large 

 yellow vetch, 1 which seems to prefer pebble beaches in 

 the vicinity of water. One small and feeble Lycaenid 

 lived on this islet, keeping close to the ground. 



From Enkusa we went to Zmo, going round Isentwa 

 and through a break in a reef which almost joins the two, 

 into a very secluded bay dubbed by Fiske "the Pirates' 

 Haven." Here we lunched, and afterwards went up on to 

 the central grassy hill to get a broad idea of this island 

 and its neighbours. 



The general appearance of this group was not at first 

 sight inviting, after the beautiful, forested and friendly 

 islands of the Kome group. They have grassy hills, but 

 much less true forest growth : the pyramidal grass clad 

 peak of Kiuwa was very striking, apparently rising straight 

 out of the water, treeless, as high as the highest point of 

 any island of the neighbourhood. 



We did no work on Ziro this day, but visited it subse- 

 quently. The only notable feature about its coast is a 

 rocky headland at the south-east point, with caves of 

 weird fashioning quite suited for pirates' lairs ! 



I noted that the flora of the isle in some respects rather 



^ Crotalaria striata. 



