Another fine day here, with a thunderstorm in the afternoon followed by gentle rain through much of the night. Stayed up till 12.15 developing 8x10 photos. Sunday, August 14, 1938. Dull slightly rainy day following a fogless, overcast dawn. Another thunderstorm passed near to the west. Preparing for a trip of exploration for the purpose of finding a suitable high altitude collecting camp on the slopes of Mt. Wilhelmina. Monday, August 15 to Wednesday, August 17, 1938. Rand, Toxopeus, Richardson, Huls, Brass, a coloured (European!) sergeant (Wildenbrow), two soldiers, eight collecting boys, eight Dyak and two convict carriers away on excursion to NE slopes of Mt. Wilhelmina. Fol- lowing a native track from the valley of the Balim and crossing the Wamena River, we camped in a grassy valley on the night of the 15th, about five miles NE of Wilhelmina top at 3440 m. altitude. That night Toxopeus, having wandered away from the party without boy or gun during the after- noon, slept under a rock an hour or so back along the track. On the morning of the 16th, Rand, Brass and three Dyak collectors pushed on up the valley in which camp was situated and reached a small lake at 3650 m. a.out three miles East of the peak. A site for a collecting camp, in a forested valley with grassy and swampy bottom, was selected enroute. The proposed camp site is at an altitude of about 3550 m. We reached Lake Habbema camp on the return journey at 2 PM. Distance from Habbema to proposed high altitude camp about eight hours for carriers. It is proposed to establish a subsidiary camp on the small lake at 3650 m. about an hour farther on.