February 16th. Still confined to camp. Toxopeus advises by returning transport that they have stablised camp at 1520 m. on the Sigi. Met very friendly natives, unarmed but for stone adzes, and of similar appearance but smaller stature than people of Balim, from them bought a pig for a knife. Last night in Brenhard Camp a tree crashed down over the quarters of three brigades of soldiers, Dyaks house, godown and staff kitchen. Nobody injured. Panic in the camp; a corporal disappeared for some time in the bush, and others of the party sat up all the remainder of the night. February 17th. Able to do some field work. Walking on uneven ground still rather painful. Teerink, Huls and Schroeder moved down to Araucaria—to continue the new craze game of naval battles. Two soldiers left for the butterfly camp on the Sigi with medicine (atebrin) for tox's assistant, Althoff, who has fever. Very heavy rain off and on after 2 PM through afternoon and steady rain tonight. A long mild earth tremor between 1 and 2 AM last night. Richardson down with his first attack of fever, fortunately mild. February 18th. Dull, almost sunless day: frequent short spells of mist but no rain. A rather profitless, because inactive, day in the field yielded some interesting plants. These included a substage Pandanus with very large syncarpus glaucous fruitheads ("nd sp. for this camp), 2 small Cyathea spp. and a scandent Schizostchyum which abounds in these rather open tall forests and forms, with several rotans, a characteristic feature of the lower and middle spaces. February 19th. Fine and clear after early fogs had cleared from valley below (Araucaria Cre