185 sour unhealthy smell about the camp although all the fine big trees which once shaded it from the sun had been cut down during the floods, when the fall of one or two and the threatened fall of others constituted a grave danger to the party. Teerink and Huls at 3 oclock were still sleeping off the effects of their midday rice. Got a few stores and collecting supplies and started back at 4.30. The water is probably as low now as it has been since 1st January. In fact, except for a short spell about the third week in February, it has been on the average perhaps a meter higher. A silt-fouled [illegible] band 2 m. deep, left by the receding waters, marks the height of the flood. Most of the few spp. of swamp-inhabiting low seral trees lining the banks of river and side channels have shed their leaves to the height of this silt band, but thin flattish crowns are green and flourishing. Under these bared low trees an amphibious fern covers much of the ground. April 7th. Put my Dyaks tp work erecting ovens, etc., and myself with Max examined the forest near at hand and gathered a few plants. Forests, at least those [illegible] of the lower slopes, are poor in species, contain few ground or undergrowth plants. Probably there is a strong SE monsoon and long dry season. Some dry SE wind today. April 8th. Temp. Max. 33 degrees, min. 22.5. A big increase on our last camp but a high variation for lowlands. Cloudy day: heavy rain from thunderstorm in evening: wind NW. Rand and Richardson with Van Arcken and all people from Araucaria Creek moved down today. Richardson stayed here,,the others going on to Bernhard Camp. Had a fair morning's collecting down the little stony creek which runs past camp. The best thing--and one of the botanical prizes of the expedition--being a tall fan palm, common here, which is either Borassus or a new genus. According