way through to Vim higher loweis beoauee of the density of tlm brush 
and the exooedingiy rough terrain. On© had to ^re® with Gifford 
Pinehot’s desoriptioa of this side of the island, **iaaooe3siblQ Inde- 
fatigable", 
There is on© very alo® landing b^oh at Conway Bay, but Id'W 
land near by is generally low end densely brush oovered, As ir© learned 
from various residents in the Islands, the present rainy season lias 
proved to be one of the wettest for may years, Kiis was ■ the report, 
of the residents of Wreek Bey, Asadaay Bay, and ¥illsffiil, on south 
Albmarle, which we visited before leaving the Islands, ^he Mttaer 
fatally scxk made a siailar report to the Captain of the suteariaes which 
visited Gimrles Island, sayir^ tliat it ms the wettest wirarfewy season 
that they had seen in -the Islands since their arrival in 1932, Thus 
it was that we found several fairly large pools of fresh water a few 
hundred yards back from the shore line at CoiMray Bay. Similar condi- 
tions obtained in Soutli Seyaour Island, where three differ^t groups 
of intermittent fresh water pools were found. These ponds do not 
pastK persist through the dry season, as I know from personal knowledge* 
Our Conway party returmd to the base at South S«^raour 
alonside the ilALlAED on tlW' afternoon of April 16th, The mxt day the 
whole eoEpedltion left for James Island, where we anchored in the early 
afternoon. Mere, too, wo found much evidence of a very wet rainy sea- 
scai, Ihe whole island was completely green. All of ay other visits 
here have been during the drier months, and on this occasion I saw for 
the first time the waterfall that lias been reported in a gully to the 
eastward of Jaeies Bay, The James Bey anohorabe is fairly open and 
