This is the moon of the yam harvest; the vines are cut, _goro_, and the tubers very carefully taken up with digging-sticks to be stored. A few _un_ appear at the next moon, the _werei_, which may be translated ‘the rump of the _un_’. In this moon they begin again to _uma_, clear the gardens; the wind blows again from the west, the _ganoi_, over Vanua Lava. It is now November or December, the _togalau_-wind blows from the north-west, it is exceedingly hot, fish die in the shallow pools, the reeds shoot up into flower; it is the moon of shooting up, _vule wotgoro_. The next month is the _vusiaru_, the wind beats upon the _casuarina_-trees upon the cliffs, the next again is called _tetemavuru_, the wind blows hard and drives off flying fragments from the seeded reeds; these are hurricane months. The last in order is the month that beats and rattles, _lamasag noronoro_, the dry reeds; the wind blows strong and steady, work is begun again, they _rakasag_, dry the rubbish of their clearings, and make ready the fences for new gardens. By this time the heat is past, the grass begins to spring again, and the winter months return”[809]. According to another report the natives of New Britain (Bismarck Archipelago) are still at the initial stage of the development. They numbered the months of the monsoons, five for each, and gave one month each to the two intervening periods. They had no names for each month, but only for the season. However they had terms for the planting and for the digging-moon, i. e. the harvest[810].