will be no rain either on face or feet this night. George and Van are out with the lights again tonight. Len is busy with his plants. Jetty Joe is sleeping the sleep of a good camp cook, after hav- ing produced another of his excellent oyster stews. I cannot go out until we have another headlight, which will be with the Portland Roads baggage, but should be thinking about writing moving letters for this journal and the other things I shall have to attend to but may as well wait until Dick arrives with whatever mail there may be for us. Wednesday, 12 May 1948. Nothing very much happened this day until evening when Dick arrived over from Lockerbie. With him he brought a case of supplies from B-P, Thursday Island, and in the mass was a good amount of mail, dated variously from April 15th to 23rd. I do not yet know what we are to do in the matter of returning, whether we go tomorrow or not. I suppose it does not matter very much to us though Dick may not want to wait any longer than necessary. I shall find out to- morrow, I suppose. There was no mail in regarding ships to Portland Roads but that too will be explained sooner or later. Thursday, 13 May 1948. Although it is afternoon, it seems a good idea to write this up now and save the late afternoon and evening for packing. All the party except Jetty Joe and myself went off early in Dick's truck to visit Somerset, a couple of miles north of here. There are no inhabitants there but the house of Frank Jardine, pioneer of this country, still stands and his grave also is there. Jardine I believe was the first white man to traverse the length of the Cape and his work was done between 1890 and 1910. He died in 1916 and Dick knew and worked for him prior to his, Dick's, enlistment for the first war. Apparently Jardine was ruthless in dealing with the blacks, or with any whites who crossed his path. He eventually became a magistrate, policing the northern part of the Cape in person and with vigor. It seems probable that a person did not necessarily have to be a law-breaker to incur Jardine's wrath, and the wrath was usually followed by a rifle shot. An act which dis- pleased him was sufficient and it was advisable for the actor to leave the country rapidly. I decided not to make the trip and instead put in another morning's hunting. The things I particularly wanted again eluded me but I did get some new things, things I had not previously taken in this locality, that is. Rain came on fairly heavily after lunch so I have decided not to do much to save to have a swim, or rather salt bath, a little later, and after finishing this, shall do my labelling, fill in the catalogue and so on. The others will probably not be back until shortly before supper. Tomorrow we shall start off as early as convenient for Lockerbie and put in a day or so refitting, packing and so on. George and Van have not found this camp very profitable, so far as num- ers are concerned but, oddly enough, have found great variety. Their total results have been perhaps twenty specimens, but sixteen or seventeen different species are represented. Only in two or three cases have they taken more than one specimen of the species. For myself, I have done pretty well, I think, both in bugs and reptiles, but having no knowledge of what I have taken, I cannot be sure of my success. I do know that I am going to much more than fill the containers the Herpetology and Entomology Depts. gave me.