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way through to the higher levels because of the density of the brush and the exceedingly rough terrain. One had to agree with Gifford Pinchot's description of this side of the island,"inaccessible Indefatigable".

There is one very nice landing beach at Conway Bay, but the land near by is generally low and densely brush covered. As we learned from various residents in the Islands, the present rainy season has proved to be one of the wettest for many years. This was the report of the residents of Wreck Bay, Academy Bay, and Villamil, on south Albemarle, which we visited before leaving the Islands. The Wittmer family [[strikethrough]] mak  [[/strikethrough]] made a similar report to the Captain of the submarines which visited Charles Island, saying that it was the wettest [[strikethrough]] winter [[/strikethrough]]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 Conway Bay. Similar conditions obtained in South Seymour Island, where three different groups of intermittent fresh water ponds were found. These pond do not [[strikethrough]] pari? [[/strikethrough]] persist through the dry season, as I know from personal knowledge.

Our Conway Bay party returned to the base at South Seymour alonside the MALLARD on the afternoon of April 16th. The next day the whole expedition left for James Island, where we anchored in the early afternoon. Here, too, we found much evidence of a very wet rainy season. The whole island was completely green. All of my other visits here have been during the drier months, and on this occasion I saw for the first time the waterfall that has been reported in a gully to the eastward of James Bay. The James Bay anchorabe is fairly open and