193 progressively slower as the water spreads out over new levels. On the 30th, I went down to the entrance of the lagoon and crossed the Idenburg to the opposite bank. Found there, rather to my surprise, the ground along the riverbanks generally not yet inundated. But the river rising and breaking over the banks to the lower ground behind. From a point opposite the [illegible] entrance to the lagoon, our 2150 m camp site and the 1700 m. peak are in plain view. Clouds, formed by river moisture, obscured the whole of the range from 600 m. up before I could erect the big camera for a picture (9 AM). By 4 PM the range behind Bernhard Camp was again quite clear. This morning (30th) Archbold made his long-arranged broadcast to U.S.A.