106 October 1st. A wet day both here and on the coast. The plane due here today, unable to take off on account of the weather. The Idenburg in high flood for some days. 20 Dyaks sent back to the 3560 m. camp. Richardson and Teerink arrived. October 2nd. The wet weather continues. Carriers in with the last loads from the upper camp. October 3rd. Guba arrived with supplies from Hollandia and took Huls and Van Arcken to the Idenburg. Schroeder returned by the plane to Hollandia and also Ebeli, who has resigned his position as radio operator at Habbema. Another wet day. The Guba was fortunate in getting and almost immediately after taking off became closed up in clouds and accumulated a heavy load of ice. The Idenburg said to be 11 m. above normal. October 4th. The first reasonably fine day since Sept. 27th., but still a good deal of rain during the afternoon. Since Sept 20th we have had only one fine day. Rand commenced the collection of material for a Snow Mountain group for display in the bird section of the American Museum. Material being dried over Coleman lamps and charcoal fire in a tent and our preparations fly. Myslef busy labelling specimens for the past three days. October 5th. Guba arrived with another load of stores after first landing on the Idenburg. Rogers, Booth, Brown and Barrinka will assist Rand to collect, prepare and pack material for the museum group.