and our (American) tents erected under grass sun-roofs: a grass summerhouse on bank of river: stone pathways, etc. When Teerink and I were here twelve days ago the country was dry and crops in need of rain. The recent rains have saturated the ground completely and the river is no longer fordable. A creek which joins the river at the camp, dry twelve days back, is also running strongly. Dancing and a ceremonial killing of pigs, to welcome the arrival of the party, began shortly after we reached camp. The Pesigam and Morip c lans each provided separate parts of the entertainment. It seems that we are camped on Pesigan territory and that their part of today's proceedings was our initiation into the tribe. See notes on dance elsewhere. Friday, November 11, 1938 Teerink, Huls and Toxopeus, with an escort of eight soldiers departed for the Balim to meet the plane due in with stores on the sixteenth. Although it means the loss of most of the collecting time available at the 2200 m. camp, for he cannot return here before the 25th, Toxopeus is having his assistant bring in to the Balim the insects he has collected during the last three months on the Idenburg, and he (Tox.) is going down to prepare them for shipment to Java. Spent the morning collecting in second growths and up to the primary forests at 2300 m. on the ridge NW of camp. Though rather abated since the departure of the Dutch party this morning, the natives much of a nuisance, hissing around the fence with things to sell, and insisting on helping our people bring in firewood and building material and demanding nothing less than a shell for their trouble.