FIJI-NEW ZEALAND EXPEDITION 37 
vegetable life. We felt sure even from this hasty examination 
that there was material and work here in abundance. 
Our attention was next focused on the island of Makuluva itself 
and its facilities for quarters and laboratories for our party. The 
island is about ten acres in extent roughly quadrilateral in form 
and lies about a third of a mile from the larger island of Nukulau 
which is used as a quarantine station for blacks (meaning Indians 
and Fijians) and is presided over by the care-taker, a man named 
Sadler, with whom we became acquainted later. Makuluva itself 
is the Government quarantine station for whites, but of late years 
there has seldom been occasion to use it for that purpose. We 
found the quarters and buildings in good condition. The build- 
ing that we used for living rooms and laboratories was a long, 
neatly painted wooden structure with a central hall running 
through it from north to south and a range of sleeping rooms on 
either side. Each of these was large enough to accommodate a 
man very comfortably and all of them opened on to the central 
hall on one side and a roomy, breezy veranda on the other. Each 
had a cot, a washstand with basin and pitcher, a chair or two and 
a kerosene lamp. Mattresses, pillows and bed linen were also pro- 
vided. The wide porches on the east and west sides gave ad- 
mirable laboratory space where we could work in comfort all day, 
using the west side in the forenoon and the east veranda in the 
afternoon, thus avoiding the sun at all times. 
Beyond the south end of this building and connected with it 
by a covered walk was the dining hall with large tables and sey- 
eral other smaller ones that we used in our work. There was 
ordinary tableware in abundance and a swinging lamp for the 
evening. The windows had heavy board shutters as protection in 
ease of a hurricane. South of the dining hall was another build- 
ing, a duplicate of the one first described and on one side a cook 
house with a range and usual kitchen furniture. On a convenient 
platform next the dining room was a pump which drew water, or 
rather was expected to, from a large cistern beneath. This solved 
the extremely important question of water supply, although we 
had to draw the water in buckets as the pump refused to function 
properly. Other buildings, smaller and roofed with corrugated 
iron, we did not use, except one for our Indian cook and one for 
the two Fiji helpers. 
Makuluva is an exceedingly attractive little island from a scenie 
standpoint with many graceful coconut palms, no underbrush and 
