Mon Oct 11. A cool a.m. (66°) & dense mist like fog which was actually suspended dust. Visited the children's school (principal, Mr. Parsons) to learn whether kids had seen any mammoths. Several stood forward. They were to try hunting this p.m., I am to pay 6¢ for each specimen brought in. One boy said he had seen traces of Spring Fartests. Then up 6' to the mine, where Mr. -- took me out to see some small natural caverns. One, 70 ft. deep, had plant 1 dropping & rock walls & a few of wallabies. No bats. Other holes too small. After level back to the mine & searched in no 1 (200 ft.) level for possible skeletons & into which crowded into the tunnel during the 1940 rat plague. None found, but picked four skeletons off the ceiling of the 85' ft. level. Discrepancy in the stories of the rat plague: Some thing migration. Others random movement. Poor supporting migration dislogue & on the question of direction. Next Mr. J. H. Bates, who has just returned from Puebloville, S.W.Q. says a rat plague is actually in progress there. Am with Police Officer Harry Ormsby, Police Stn., then to try obtain specimens. Evening: To dinner with Mr. & Mrs. Kruttschnitt. Mr. Bates also recalled what would seem to be Antediluvian when he was a boy out at Belden, 90 mi. S. of Dojana. It was in the loose bank of its ford of a fence post toward All preparation made for me to go up 6' to the dam at Rifle Creek, 4y.2d! Walter. A Car will pick me up at 10.15. a.m. Spinifex seen & felt for first time today. Dined with Mr. & Mrs. Kruttschnitt.