"196 contacts within three weeks. Two days later (21st) two big new Dornier flying boats, which were operating with their mother ship "Arend" some- where on the coast, flew in to Bernhard Camp and removed the whole party to Hollandia. Meanwhile, about eleven days previous to the withdrawal of Horne's party from Bernhard Camp, thing began to go against Bartels' party operating high up on the Digoel. For six days the old Fokker land plane which pro- visioned them by parachutes failed to get in owing to bad weather. On the seventh day the weather improved and the Fokker made another attempt, but had not gone very far when an engine failed and she just managed to limp home. With the Fokker grounded for an indefinite period, and the food of the inland party by this time quite exhausted, there was nothing to do but retreat. With empty tucker bags, Bartels and his party began a rapid march down to the canoes left on the river and thence to Tanah Merah, a journey of four days. The party was expected at Tanah Merah on the evening of the 21st, but we had no news of them when we went aboard the "Van Imhoff", which sailed from Hollandia that night. Things moved quickly for our own expedition after the return of the scientific party to Hollandia on the 9th and 10th. After making very hurried and incomplete arrangements for winding up the expedition, the "Guba", with crew of Archbold, Rogers, Brown, Barrinka and Booth, and Rand, Ramm and a Guinea Airways mechanic named O'Brien (who had been a month or more helping at Hollandia) as passengers, left for Port Moresby at 6.30 AM on the 12th. At Port Moresby they picked up Yancey and flew to Townsville_ on the thirteenth. On the fourteenth the Guba continued on to Sydney, and Archbold and Rand took a Qantas flying boat to Java.