Experience in Manus revealed the unreliability of kinship systems in the Admiralties derived from one informant. But within an area as compact and in many respects as homogeneous as the Admiralties, notes upon surrounding systems become meaningful in the light of one complete system. The Balowan is the simplest system which has been recorded for the Admiralties. The Manus system, it will be remembered, lacked such terms and used the terms for father and son, mother and daughter in substitution. Although the Balowan people have child betrothal and follow the customary Admiralty island pattern by which the son of lom pein marries the daughter of lom kamal yet there are no avoidances, not even between the betrothed pair. The Lou Islanders are more like the other known portions of the Admiralties than are the Balowan islanders. The terms for affinal relatives reveal much the same characteristics, great similarity between Lou and Balowan and great variability among the other groups.