Teerink returned in afternoon with an escort of soldiers and the 89 carriers who made the first journey. A party of about eight men and one small girl appeared during the morning. These people, who came from towards the east and apparently belonged to a different valley to our visitors of yesterday and the day before, brought three half grown pigs and a bundle of penis gourds to trade. A pig purchased for ten small cowries and Archbold traded a red handkerchief for a gourd. Tuesday, August 30, 1938. Dull day with little sun. Richardson caught in a steel trap in a grassy sinkhole near the edge of forest one of the mammal prizes of the expedition to date, a large Mallomys with a broad white band over the back. Teerink composed in Dutch a telegram to H. M. Wilhelmina conveying from the slopes of Mt. Wilhelmina congratulations on the 40th year of [illegible] her reigh as queen. Tomorrow is the Queens' birthday and jubilee day is 6th September. Another party of 1l natives, some of them visitors of two days ago, turned up during the afternoon. Somewhat to my surprise, they were will- ing to sell their weapons, and Richardson did some hard trading for bows and arrows, a spear, jaws harp, hair net, and other articles. A small cowrie secured a bow and bunch of arrows, a spear, or a stone adze. Our Dyaks traded for sweet potatoes - a box of matches for two large roots. The Guba took a load of supplies to Bernhard Camp and conveyed Lieut. van Arcken to Hollandia. Three days ago, by a coincidence on the same day that natives first came into our camp, the camp on the Idenburg was visited by natives bringing