FIJI-NEW ZEALAND EXPEDITION 47 
one of the reefs to the southeast of Makuluva because the spirits 
of all the departed Fiji chiefs dwelt there and he was afraid they 
would catch him. He thought that Fiji ought to belong to the 
Unxca States as the first visitors to reach these islands were 
Americans. 
The boy caught a chicken which seemed to be running wild on 
the island and thus secured a piece de resistance for our Sunday 
dinner. That was fortunate, because about noon Secretary Fell 
and two other officials, Mr. Holmes and Mr. Caldwell, paid us a 
visit in a launch which they used in their fishing excursions, and 
brought along a lot of good things to supplement our lunch. We, 
therefore had quite a feast, although Mr. Sadler, who came from 
Nukulau, claimed that the chicken belonged to him. We took our 
visitors for a stroll on the tide flats and showed them some of the 
interesting things we had collected. Among the latter was a 
curious puff-fish mottled with light and dark greens and white 
polka dots on its back. It had a comical way of slowly winking 
its rather prominent eyes, sometimes closing them altogether as if 
asleep. Then there was a very large and brilliant nudibranch in 
vivid hues of searlet, crimson and white, which swam with grace- 
ful undulating motions in a pan of sea water. 
That night I developed a roll of film which I had used that day 
and found it absolutely blank! It had been packed at the factory 
with a strip of black paper in front or on the emulsion side of 
the film. This was disheartening as there was no knowing how 
many rolls had the strips reversed in the same way. We had 
considerable trouble in developing films on Makuluva on account 
of the warmth of the water and the absence of ice. As a matter 
of fact we found it safer not to develop on the island but to take 
our exposed films to a photographer in Suva, who had a fairly 
good developing room and equipment. 
On Monday, June 12th, the small launch came from Suva with 
provisions forwarded by Mrs. Stoner. Wylie also came for his 
sojourn on the island, while Thomas and Glock returned in the 
launch to Suva. The tides were daily becoming less favorable 
and the collecting fell off somewhat, but there was still plenty to 
occupy us. Each day we found the area of flats laid bare at low 
tide perceptibly decreased, and we could hardly get to the outer 
edge of the reef at all on account of the big rollers that swept 
in at irregular and unexpected intervals. 
The moonlight nights were glorious during the first few days 
