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Altitudes are the mean of aneroid readings by Rand and Brass.
For details of trip see the following, taken from field notebook
No. 1.
August 15, 1938
Excursion Habbema to slopes Mt. Wilhelmina.
Party: Rand, Toxopeus, Huls, Brass, 1 sergeant, 2 soldiers, 8
collectors, 8 Dyak carriers, 2 convicts.
6.40 AM Sergeant left with carriers following track made round
upper end of lake.
7.20 Rand, Toxopeus, Huls, Brass and two boys left in boat
to cross lake. Barometer adjusted to 3225 m. (altitude
of Habbema bank).
7.50 Landed at Kremer's Camp, altitude 3200 m.
8.10 Native shelter 3250 m.
8.15 Crest Balim Divide.
3260 m. (3300) Kremer's Camp - lake five degrees - Wil-
helmina Peak 175 degrees - proposed camp 145 degrees.
Scattered Libocedrus fifteen to thirty feet high: Tough
rather clumped shrubby thickets Phyllocladus, Symplaccus,
Didea: much low Rhododendron between 60-70 m. also
Leucopugon.
8.20 Started down over soft springy moss through thickets of
slope and skirting a marshy hollow with numerous shallow
pools reached at