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General Account
1 Psuedelins, 1 Phacocaps, 1 Hydromys, + Strumosa
(spasm not appeared)
The morning prepared specimens. The afternoon remained in camp recovering from a dose of poison. Saturday late afternoon I partook of tea and tried so morral. The cook however had made a new kind of bread which I called graham. Then I am eating it, Pule, Bruce, Dick and myself knew well. It was not until the morning that we learned that he had mixed durrie with the flour, sifted said. It had been included in the can of flour to lay at the innits by Tom his body. At any rate we were all ill, not completely morral, from the effects of a bad poison in our blood.
This afternoon to native men came within 40 ft of camp talked and gouted me in a friendly way. They was by no means shy indicating their desire of friendship by gesticulating in the bed of an old tin can. Yesterday the natives saw grain several. They were given said on awhile they admired greatly especially the little stand which held it upright. They indicated this yellowness by snatching the pinky grade with their fingers.
Aug 29 Lake Klabbena Netherlands New Guinea 3225 m.
195 mmu higos, 191 rat higos, 22 stub higos,
Hydromys.
This morning "jiddled" about camp doing odd jobs etc. The morning 7 natives, 1 small girl & mn stayed our camp. Two of the men came in. They had 3 pigs one of which we bought for 10 canis shells (10s). It's a small pig, 2-50lb, but now there is it will give us fresh meat for supper. They were the usual types of native with blackish face, penis god, rotten arm bands, coarse matted hair not, smell and leg so tobaccoed, others with 8-14 arrows which made up their gear. One man carried