THE NAUTILUS. dD 
Mr. F. Grinnell, with his necessary paraphernalia, started 
out prepared to collect plants and insects, while Messrs. Bryan, 
Emerson, Antone Gouveia and the writer for goats and shells. 
The writer and Antone Gouveia took the first car towards 
Waialae, which leaves Kalihi Street at 5:45 a. m., and, after 
riding fifty minutes, we joined the rest of the members at the 
end of the car line. 
At 6:45 we started out for Keawaawa. We had about eight 
miles to go before we could reach the foot of the valley and 
about three miles to go before we reached our hunting grounds. 
The day was clear, and while on our way up the valley the 
talk was upon different subjects pertaining to the Hawaiian 
Islands and their history, among them the decrease of the 
Hawaiian population. When the white people first came to 
these islands they found them thickly populated with pure 
Hawaiians. To-day, about two-thirds of the Hawaiian popu- 
lation are half-breeds. Discussing the cause of their disappear- 
ance, we agreed that it was due to the following: wars, human 
sacrifice, pestilence, oppression by kings, chiefs and priests, 
liquor, wearing of clothing, and amalgamation with white 
people. 
After an eight-mile walk along a hard coral road we reached 
Keawaawa at 8 o’clock. We were now ready to face a trail 
well overgrown on both sides with the Glue Bush and Lantana. 
It is not very pleasant to hike through these on account of 
their thorns. After about an hour’s walk we arrived at the 
forest, our shelling grounds. On our way up we followed 
cattle trails which led along the bottom of the valley, and up 
near the drops we followed a zig-zag trail which wound to the 
top of the west Keawaawa ridge. 
When we reached the outskirts of the forest, Grinnell and 
Gouveia followed a ravine on the right-hand side going up. 
This is where our day’s collecting began. The following shells 
were collected in the above ravine: 
Philonesia baldwini var. 6 specimens. 
Tyropupa magdalenz 6 spec. 
Lyropupa microthauma var. 4 spec. 
Lyropupa microthauma var. 6 spec. 
