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a spear some 10ft in length of a straight piece
of (1") hardwood sheppened to more on one of a
point at the end. It had a selected broad chaff
14" from the end which indicated divided the
blade from the shaft. The people were in
all appearance quite primitive with few personal
goods except the few essentials to their life.
The afternoon I went in search of
Endornicus though the swamp forest near
the green valley at the NE of camp. Although
many trees were cut a parallel over field
in hollow spots and though more clumps were
seen found. This empty nests were found that
quite possibly belonged to said a mammal.
This morning the second group
caravan left of the Willmote camp
which included Dr. Trappe, his 2 collectors, his cook, 14 soldiers,
12 Dyaks, 6 convicts, 1 Sayant, 5 soldiers. The
afternoon Cystonia turned and the group
of convicts, soldiers and Dyaks returned from
the same camp. Dr. Park remained there with
his 2 collectors, cook, 4? convicts, 2? soldiers.
Aug 30 Lake Halibon, Netherlands New Guinea 3225m.
195mm traps, 191 rat traps, 22 stick traps -
1 Mallomys, 2 Stenomys.
The morning studied traps and pursued
the giant rat. The afternoon stayed in
camp because of the dull threatening weather.
The afternoon 11 natives came into camp.
Depurched part of their bows and
arrow which would indicate that they
were not only friendly toward us but threatening
as well. This content contained remnants
of what appeared to be Doctyolomas (sp?),
Dregeus, and some big rat.
Aug 31 Lake Halibon, Netherlands New Guinea 3225m.
195mm traps, 191 rat traps, 22 stick traps -
4 Stenomys.