Number pandanus and at hamlets and in gardens: a few taro plants among Keima. Pteridium, Cyathea, Dodonaea, Bidens, Saccharum A. regrowth. Small brown quail, also finches. 12.25. Resumed. 12.35. Sinkhole in forest. 12.45. View back up river. 1. PM. Rest at small village on top ridge we have been plodding up since 11.55. 2500 m. Sama mixed other trees. Fine view east down Mun, over Grand Valley. Valley of Mun joins into G.V. 3 miles down (more). 1.10. Resumed, passing along upper end gardens: tracks much of way along new clearings: great same felled by fire. 1.40. Out on old and new garden land (at least old ground dug up and planted) Fine views. Garden groung, shallow grey loam over yellow clay: good level path through gardens. 1.45. Met solitary man with big stone axe and stopped to rest at 2400 m. Guid wished us to camp here: no wood or water. View down valley. 2.50. Continued through grass, gardens and hamlets on good path. 2.30. Sandstone and the first good water since leaving Mun. No water in limestone country. 2.35. Bracken slopes; round areas fern on very poor grey sandy soil of a formerly cultivated slope. 2.40. Camp at 2100 m. beside a tabu clump of oaks in cultivated country. We were strictly forbidden to cut or interfere with this oak grove. How- ever it gives us good shelter from cold up-valley wind. For an hour we travelled over cultivated slopes and secondary grass (secondary lalang). Similar great cultivated slopes of grey and yellowish soil on the opposite bank of the Mun, and before us always the immense, heavily- populated Grand Valley itself. Kaima the great food crop: some taro amongst the kaima: bananas and short leaf tobacco grown in the village enclosures. Pigs also kept in