58. Sunday, 25 April 1948. The thing most worth recording today is the fact that nt watch has started going again and some mail came in from New York, England and Florida. I do not quite know how it got here as Tom Holland has not yet returned from T. I., but I think it was sent over to the telegraph station with theirs and the lineman brought it over. My collecting trips of the morning and afternoon did not produce a great deal and the afternoon one was most noteworthy for the fact that I rode my bicycle to the area I had selected. The bike is in bad shape after the treatment it received on the Lochiel and I shall have to give it some attention tomorrow. The mammal collecting also fell off in numbers last night but we shall most likely put in another ten days or so here before moving to the Pacific Coast point selected. Our journeying south, so far as the mode of transportation is concerned, is quite uncertain. When Pallister, Museum entomologist, returned from Peru shortly before we left, the papers made much of the fact that he brought back somewhere around 70,000 specimens of insect. It seemed incredible but the answer must be in the collecting by light and funnel, referred to in last night's entry. So many minute things fall into the jar that even I must have by now, after only having the contraction rigged four nights, several thousand of the lit- tle things. I wonder what Cazier and the rest of the entomology department will do with them and how long it will take to examine and identify them all. The south-east trade wind has been blowing all day and will continue for the next few months. It is a breeze much beloved by sailors but does not help a bit if one is typing or if there is a table loaded with specimen envelopes. Moreton asked me for an electric torch so the boys could go walk-about by night. We have no extras but I lent him a cycle lamp. He asked how much it was and on being told seven shillings, produced from some secret store two florins and four threepenny pieces which he proffered. I refused but had bet- ter order a few extra batteries for the lamp. A scrub turkey, shot yesterday by Len, formed our supper tonight and Jetty Joe did things up completely by boiling a plum pudding to go with it. Monday, 26 April 1948. Sometime long after we had turned in last night we were disturbed by the advent of several people from T.I. who had come over on a picnic to the telegraph station. They had heard of our ar- rival, wished to make our acquaintance and borrow some rum. Both wishes were gratified and they spent some time at Ginger Dick's house singing, though we returned to camp and turned in. Terry McLeod, the Winnipeg lad from the Lochiel was on the party though barely with it; he experienced considerable difficulty in standing but talked at length about the apple pies he had baked for us and would bring over personally this morning. He did not arrive, of course, but this evening young Dick Holland, young- est son of Ginger Dick, drove to R.I.P. and returned with our missing tent and the bag of tow. There also was a crate containing some bats and a letter which reads as follows:- Archbold Expedition and Company Dear Friends:- Here with is twenty four Possession Island bats secured from the abandoned mining shafts ajacent to Captain Cook's monument The two bats of one species came from the shaft of some elevation, the remainder from the lower shaft at sea level. and We are also sending with the bats, two sack bags which you missed