Van Arcken down with fever at 2100 m. camp, and our two cook boys more or less ill with fever accompanied by disordered stomach - probably same complaint as Rands'. Rand's fourth day of illness: still sick, but considerably improved and trying to eat a little. Friday, January 27, 1939. Thunderstorm at 4.30 AM followed by steady light rain and raw breeze from SE to 12.15, when wind shifted to N. and mist without rain covered camp to 6 PM: evening more or less starry. Teerink left for Tusschen Camp (1200 m.) at 6.30 AM to make preparations for our accommodation, taking with him Sergt. Gottschalk and the Dyak carriers who came up on the 25th. Gottschalk has abscess on both feet and is walking in rubber-soled canvas boots. Think that, at the cost of a few sacks of rice, the transport might have been delayed until tomorrow in the hope of better weather. Spent the day labelling specimens. One of my Dyaks sick. Rand much improved, eating a little, smoking and had a shot of whisky this evening. His seventh day of illness. Rogers still in Port Moresby hospital. The doctor there diagnosis his dengue fever as a deep streptococcus infection of a leg!! Otherwise a tropical ulcer. Saturday, January 28, 1939. High broken overcast at dawn and Idenburg under cloud: mist began 11 AM and light rain 12.15: very heavy rain from thunderstorm 5-7 PM: wind N. Finished field work for this camp. Richardson visited subsidiary camp at 1500 m. and found Toxopeus away on a visit to the lower slopes. Later in the day - during the thunderstorm -