8.40 Grassy bottom of Baliem Valley at 3240 m. 8.45 Started over valley. 9.15 Stopped to rest at small creek filled treeferns and Gahnia and Gleichenia, flowing to nearby Wamena, alt. 3160 m. Valley soft underfoot and covered tufted stiff grass 8-12" high growing out of a bog mat of dwarf grasses, pale leaved rosettes of buttercups, gray and black lichens and deep brown hepatic. Number of shallow rusty ponds partly empty and slight dips running to Balim. Our course swinging westerly to avoid feeder gullies of Wamena. 9.30 Left resting place and continued over grassland. 9.50 to Wamena. Pretty bouldery stream 10 m. wide flowing in bottom steep sided valley 300 m. wide cut to depth of 35 m. (alt. 3140 m.) Green Equiostum under steep banks: Wahlenburgi, Imperator. Grey lumps forest thrown up on sandy edges. 10.05 Left stream. Soft knee-high grass in bottom plain. Burnt grass and tree-ferns. 10.10 Top east bank 3175 m. opposite the conspicuous white vertical scar 1/2 miler 210 degrees 1 m. high shrubberies 2 Rhododendrons (& another) and fewer Drimys line top bank in strip 20 m. wide. 10.15 Left (S.E. 10.35 Shelter, 3200 m. 10.50 Stopped to rest in a pleasant grassy point (3270 m.) over looking the Wamena (N.) sweeping round to East, and the broad valley of Balim NW. Due South. The East Knob (above