75 Thursday, August 4, 1938. Dull to rainy. Gathered a few plants about camp, labelled and catalogued a number of mosses, lichens, etc. previously collected, and stayed up till midnight developing field camera pictures. Friday, August 5, 1938. Collected mostly dwarf bag plants in the open hollow E. to NE from camp. Saturday, August 6, 1938. Unrelieved cloudy and rainy wather of last two days continues. Dark clouds cutting off Wilhelmina and riding high over our levels until 3.45, when heavy rain commenced and lasted the best part of an hour. Wind E. to S. of east. Took the larger collapsible boat and with three boys collected in the narrow outlet valley to about one quarter of a mile below the lake, when, on the west side, Dacrydium forms on not well drained slopes a sparse forest 50 ft. high with various broad-leaved trees in a low understorey. A Native sergeant and sent back from the Grand Valley by Teerink returned to camp with a bundle pf plant specimens gathered enroute. Another momentous day for the expedition. Supplies were parachuted to Teerink on the S. slope of the Grand Valley, and van Arcken being found at the New Lake, a landing was made and food delivered to him there. For the last three evenings (including today) Teerink has reported friendly contacts with some hundreds of people of the S. branches and slopes of the Grand Valley. The sergeant who returned says they have met many (thousands!) of men but no women or children. Food has been bought from the natives by Teerink, pigs, sweet-potatoes, etc. Short thick bananas tasting like an apple were mentioned by the sergeant.