Wednesday, August 3, 1938. Fine sunny day: no rain at all. Heavy frost in morning. Collected round north shore of [illegible] lake to a native shelter conspicuous towards the west and about two miles from camp. This shelter the best of two on the path, is a surprisingly poor affair considering the abundance of good Libocedrus bark in the locality. A high roof of poorly laid Libocedrus bark and boughs of other trees and bits of grass, raised over four feet walls of sticks set wide apart and very imperfectly stuffed with any kind of leafy twigs to hand - the whole thing perhaps 10 x 8 ft. Inside was a thin covering of grass round a central depression, probably burnt in the peaty ground, containing the remains of fire. A pile of dry, broken sticks lay at one end ready for use. Remains of two more camps of the type, consisting of fire pits, and in one case a few sticks of a former shelter, were seen. My object today was to examine some patches of cleared forest seen from camp, but so many interesting plants were found about the forest gardens that I no more than entered the forest. However, I saw enough to convince me that they are not true sub-alpine forests. The undergrowth of Elatostemma, etc. is certainly that of mossy forest. Dacrydium (Podocarpus papuanus?) is plentiful, also Macgregor's bird of paradise which feeds on the fruits. Gather 3 spp. of Rubus (including R. ferdinandi - [illegible]), a Poggonum and a Nettle about the forest borders, and two arborescent Oleanas and a Xanthomyces in the borders themselves. News over the radio to the effect that Teerink is in a populated valley about 21 km. NE of Lake Habbema. Yesterday he contacted about 300 people, and today 400, all friendly. Has brought pigs with cowrie shells. No Papuans seen or heard about the lake today.