TOWARDS THE UNEXPLORED 
Russell himself was absent, but we joined him later 
at Moa, one and a half hours’ row from Aruopaka, 
a voyage which we made in our host’s whaleboat. 
From Moa we passed by way of Inawee, Inawa, and 
Inawabia to Aipiana, the Government station, where 
Mr, Russell entertained us for five days. In the 
curiously-named villages just mentioned we tried to 
collect carriers, and at this juncture I sent Harry 
back to Pokama to bring on the goods we had left 
behind us, appointing to meet him at Bioto. During 
his absence Mr. Russell and I went to the southward 
through other villages Rarai and Nara, and picked 
up twenty more men. On our way through these 
southern villages we met Captain Barton, then the 
head of the native armed constabulary, and now the 
Administrator. With him I spent one night, and 
then pushed on to Bioto with my thirty bearers, who, 
as yet, had nothing to carry. To perform the journey 
adequately I really should have had a force of seventy. 
At Bioto we enlisted a few, but our numbers were 
still very insufficient. At 4 A.M. in the morning 
after my arrival at Bioto, Harry rejoined me, and 
during that day we began sending the baggage by 
relays to Epa. Harry had been enabled to bring all 
our remaining goods with him through the kindness of 
the Rey. Mr. Dauncey, who had lent him his whale- 
boat. With the help of the Chief Constable, who 
gave us the use of his canoe, we got the baggage 
along to Oofafa, from which point 1 was assisted 
by my old friend Mavai, who sent down carriers from 
Epa to take the stuff up to Ekeikei. At Bioto the 
mosquitoes were at this time a terror, and were 
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