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Saturday, May 10, 1913. 
  Mauara Tua, Cove.

      As soon as the sun had risen, I started for a clearing on the southwest side of the cove. The place had not been inhabited for about three years and of course was all overgrown. The men however, found some peppers, "Kaladi", "Terong", "Sare", & a bunch of green bananas & the bud of the banana. The clearing was less than 100 yards long and about half that wide with rocks all through it. 
    I left the men to set the traps while I climbed over rocks and hunted for birds, but although I heard many parrots and pigeons, I only saw one pigeon & that not to shoot at. 
    The whole place is nothing but a degenerating mass of limestone caves. The rock is everywhere sponge-like in form and there are many small holes, hardly caves, which should be fine places for bats, but I saw none except a couple that were flying about. 
     We returned to the prahn just at noon, and after preparing the specimens, I started out again for"Pulo Semut", one of the small islands in the cove which is rocky in the centre but is encircled by a sandy beach. The island is not more than 100 meters in diameter but a beautiful island with two or three varieties of palms, including half a dozen coconut trees. 
      I shot a couple of fruit pigeons & saw a green monkey which has a short tail which had  probably been cut by natives. There are four or five graves on the island of Bajans that died of cholera several years ago.

Sunday, May 11, 1913. 
   Muara Tua, Cove. 

         The stars had not yet disappeared when I awoke & sent Maade and Ampong to collect the traps from the clearing on the southwest