140 Monday, December 5, 1938. Left Bele Camp at 6.55 AM, the party consisting of 87 men, comprised as follows and travelling in two groups through this friendly country: Teerink, Toxopeus, Rand, Richardson, Brass. Sergeant Ho 20 soldiers 35 Dyak Carriers 13 Convict carriers 2 Ambonese collectors 7 Dyak collectors 2 Javanese collectors 3 cooks Old men stood by the path and wept and wrung our hands as we left, while the younger ones looted the camp. Before our departure those privileged to enter had been busy handing out things for friends to hold - blankets, old clothes, buckets, bottles and kerosene tins. An hour or two on our journey we were overtaken by men laden with spoils carried in copra sacks on their heads. Our old friend Gira, who met us as we approached his village, had evidently sent representatives to attend the sack, for, as this genial old man conversed with us, we saw loads of our former property pass into his village. Following the familiar route down the east side of the valley taken by Teerink and myself in October, we camped near its lower end, about 2 PM. After six hours travel and much climbing and descending, we were at exactly the same level as our starting point - 2200 m. The people of villages around camp brought quantities of food. Quite a few of the younger men had visited Bele Camp. Here I bought for three shells a fine example of the beautifully made pieces of rattan body armour peculiar to these people. Two youths had great festering wounds, perhaps 3 months old.