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Freddie, a black dirty look. Both native
men friendly especially the elder of the
two, the spokesman. He was always grinning
and it all often broke into - laugh as
we laughed. The other, a calm younger
type never spoke to us but kept his
own shifty eye on our activity. He seemed
to be the body guard off the elder
man. We offered them gifts of tobacco, nuts,
salt, camara shells, salt, dried fish, a
steel axe. Thus they returned to us left
leaving apparently not wishing to be made
any obligation. The elder of the two had
an old steel axe which he highly prized. He
was the only tangible which he showed for us.
This evening the plane crew Rodger,
Archbold, [illegible], and Brown, stayed in
for the official opening of camp. After
photograph of the Expedition members
on top of the plane the soldiers
Dyos, captives, scientists etc gathered round
the newly erected flag post. Archbold
made the opening speech followed by
a speech in English to those I saw that
understood, and another to the soldiers in
Hulog. On completion he erected gave
Archbold the honor of erecting the
Dutch flag over camp. After that the
European drank to the health of the
Queen etc, with friends special wine.
Aug 1 Lake Kalluna, Netherlands New Guinea 3225m.
150 net traps, 3 steel traps - 2 Stonepigs
The morning the Jets left for Holland.
Its next scheduled flight to come later in
Sept 2. It left me with the feeling of being
isolated from the outside world. Captain
Terriek with his party of 47 men also
left this morning for the Grand Valley.
There were 20 Dyos, 14 soldiers, ? officers. Mr.