[Journal, 3rd Archbold Expedition to New Guinea] March 23, 1938 to June 9, 1939
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greeting is WAI instead of NAP. The man who visited camp was minus two joints of the first and second fingers of the left hand - a mutilation general, it seems, in the people seen at Habbema. There being no firewood out for my use, I had to spend the day in camp while my boys got in a supply. Much work in the way of drain making and general establishment of camp remains to be done. Military supervision of camp making has proved far from satisfactory. Saturday, September 10, 1938. Ill and confined to my tent all day: violent headache, vomiting and bowels disordered. Schreuder, van Arcken, Huls and Myer-Drees arrived during the morning: having slept at the Middle Camp. Sunday, September 11, 1938. Archbold and Rand with two collecting, Soerip as cook, seven Dyak carriers, two convicts and an escort of five soldiers left for the top camp. Schreuder and Huls went with them and returned with the carriers and escort at one o'clock. Collected on the summits SE and SSE of camp. Climbed up by a grassy landslip clumped with timber directly behind camp and attained the top at a low place - 3720 m. alt. From there I followed the ridge top S., past a sharp peak of about 3800 m., on to the two E. summits of a three topped semicircular emin- ce. These tops both 3900 m. by aneroid. From the easternmost a village and cultivation were seen on the southern fall on a bearing of 165 degrees. Close behind the cultivated lands is a big landslip. From here the middle of Lake Habbema bore 340 degrees. From the central top the upper camp (Waterfall sic Camp) bore due west. For notes on vegetation see Field notebook #1.