oaks 1/8 9.35. First garden and first ??? 2300 m. Round grass-thatched house in garde sweet potatoes and pandan. 9.40. Junction Bena and Mon (like Moum) 2280 m. Bena from W x NW, Mon from SW. Casuarina on Bena though frests drier and abundant broad leaves on ground, forest still a tall almost pure stand of Samai. Very large tre fewer than higher up. Yellow rhododendron comes in with oak at 2300 m. (Like Tafa sp.). Water brown at junction, Grey and yellow hard crystalline rock. Photos to #17, carriers crossing native bridge and rest place. 10.00. Moved on down valley. C. 70 degrees (ENE) 10.20. 2280 m. Village 13 houses. One-eyed scoundrel. Opposition to progress Perhaps excessive zeal to offer hospitality but suspect mercenary motives on part of O.E.S. 10.40. Teerink's camp right with bouldery river at 2220 m. One-eye now acting as guide: dock apparently cultivated in fenced gardens: cane grass and imperata form grassy second growth. 10.50. Resumed: stream hard to croos; fast water 30 m. wide, big boulders; natives assist. 11.05. Continued down left bank; tall same forest. 11.15. Recrossing to right bank 2200 m. Natives assist, placing timbers on rocks. Some climbing bamboo in second growth. Old hamlet, two or three round houses left bank. 11.55. 2400 m. Stopped for lunch on edge of forest. Native points position of 2800 m. camp as WSW. Yimbit Peak SW. Mun River below us. Course WSW-ESE. From 11.15 followed grassy bank river a little way then climbed up 200 m. over old grassy ham garden land, through a new garden walled with stones (lime- stone) and fenced split timber still with bark: past a collection of hamlets with about 20 houses. Death wailing in last hamlet; also large (cremation) fire