25th Richardson 1938 General Account There was no labor trouble; the pickled crew all returned for work. One man previously fired tried to slip in, under an assumed name and the same guy tried to collect money the evening for two days back work. He it was fired some time ago for being a shiftless lout; the biggest of his kind. May 26th Bellaracha Flow Guines The work goes on. Hard is building the print, Kerr on the radio; Brass checking girths and I have started the Makasawa Cooks House. The house is being built directly behind the two godowns and an old fill; apparently the foundation of a previous building. The building is going with 6 x 10 meters. Its posts are set 40 cm. in the ground, the floor 60 cm above the ground, wall 2.35 cm and a ridge, 1.50 cm above the wall plate. It is being built of jungle wood and stave with the exception of the floor which is soft wood planking. Most of the cooks (same number as yesterday) cooks worked about the buildings today. A small crew of 10 or 15 went for timber and returned with 21 logs cuttable for joist, gates, and ridge pole. Sickness in our Poporan crew has been relatively small. The men we expected into and dismissed the worst of which was a guy eight to nine middle earth on an axe. Our Makasawa's however have been sick a good deal of the tin. Of the total of 12 white (men) they averaged 2 to 3 men and per day. This illness is principally malaria but one of the guys (Kerr?) has given something that has kept him confined for the past week. Yesterday he was to have had an operation. I did not see him today but someone said