 "Le Tolna" spent several days at Funafuti with the Count photographing men and women on Funafuti.The boreholes on Funafuti at the site now called "Darwin's Drill", are the result of drilling conducted by the Royal Society of London for the purpose of investigating the formation of coral reefs and the question as to whether traces of shallow water organisms could be found at depth in the coral of Pacific atolls.This investigation followed the work on The Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs conducted by Charles Darwin in the Pacific.