15 coolies from which to sellect the 9 required by the expedition. The coolies apparently are from some kampong near the town and generally not particularly attractive.. One cooks mate looks a bit simple and the other a rogue. The M.V. also was busy packing my order for 2 months rations for 20 coolies. The best job of expedition packing I have seen. All supplies are in kerosene (4 gal. or 2 gal) tins and each kind painted a different color. Boshuizer, local sub-agent for Internationale very friendly and helpful. Took me around to the Harmonie to introduce Lieut- Schroeder, who has been detailed to accompany our expedition and is sailing to Batavia and Bandoeng this afternoon. April 10th. Sunday and all four of us went by car to Malino, a mountain resort situated at 1050 m. Altitude, 75 km from Makassar. A pleasant drive over well-made if narrow roads leading at first through rice fields and numerous native villages shaded with Coconuts, bamboo and bananas. Farther inland the rice fields follow the valleys and tall bamboos have replaced most of the original forest. In the mountains proper, population is chiefly on high ridges and little plateaus a couple of thousand feet above the riverbeds. The narrow stony river-flats still carry rice, in quite an early stage of growth. Near the coast the rice will soon be flowering. At Malino and extending perhaps a about 500 feet lower along the road are remnants of a mid-mountain type of forest dominated by an oak. The trees carry many epiphytic ferns (few sp.), a number of small orchids, a Peperornia and are sometimes hung with long grey lichens. The whole country is volcanic origin, the mountain slopes steep and largely deforested and over-run with grass at middle levels. Here as in New Guinea one sees a populous coastal belt, a sparsely inhabited lower mountain zone and above it another well populated belt at mid-mountain levels. Above the latter zone forests reach to the mountain tops. Thermida gigantea, abundant on more recently deforested land at Malino, and