and sometimes heavy rain generally from E. to SE. During that time, and including this morning, we have had clear mornings. When I say clear mornings, I mean no fog on the lake. Had some fever today and therefore did little work. Wednesday, August 10, 1938 Another cloudy day with spots of sunlight, and light showers during the afternoon. Rand, Huls and myself crossed the lake by boat and climbed the ridge overlooking the grassy valley of the Balim for the purpose of selecting a site for a collecting camp on the slopes of Mt. Wilhelmina. A suitable site being seen, Huls continued on to find a suitable route across the valley of the Balim; Rand and I collecting on the ridge and the marshy grass flats bordering the lake. The ridge drier and more sterile than that on which our camp is situated and covered with similar open Libocedrus and mossy shrubbery. The flat very wet under foot and in places too soft to bear one overweight - poor in plants. Thursday, August 11, 1938 Spent a not very profitable morning collecting along the stream and on the dry stony knolls of the grass valley east of camp. During the afternoon two parties of natives, about 20 in all, passed by camp. My boys, sent back to the grass valley to do some more collecting, saw a party of four men leading a pig. Rand, while observing the nest of Macgregor's bird of paradise across the bay, was passed unseen by a party of fifteen men, women and children. One of these men wore a cassowary feather head-dress.