203 quated sawmill owned by the Government and operated by a German. Late into the night the ships winches worked unloading logs on to the great floats drawn up fore and aft on both sides of the ship. Spurred into activity, perhaps, by the establishment of a Japanese planta- tion for, while there are German plantations, none is Dutch owned on the north coast, the Government has during the last year started planting close by the Japanese cotton concession to the north, where an area of 500 hectares of good land is available. Here rubber and Africam oil palms will be grown, and seed beds have already been established, while 2000 Papuan coolies are engaged in clearing the land. May 26, 1939. Manokwari to Sorong At dawn we had rounded the point from Manokwari and were passing along the mountainous north coast of the Vogelkop, with the bold rounded slopes of the Arfak, standing out clear in the early morning air, already somewhat astern. There is no port of call on all this unsheltered coast, though patches of second growths and pale cultivated spots indicate the presence of population along most of its length. This population is seemingly confined to a line of low mountains or rather a discontinuous ridge, possibly of coral limestone, which runs along the coast close under the main mountain complex. Late in the afternoon, as we were running SW towards Sorong, I had though the clouds which had obscured the upper levels of the mountains most of the day, a glimpse of a bold high peak, rather distant from the coast, which was probably Arrived at Sorong about 8.30 in the evening, and Richardson went ashore with a Dyak to procure food for his tree-climbing kangaroos. Here we took on board eight men of the BPM (Oil Company) going on leave, who had been flown from Babo to catch the ship. Babo, the exploration headquarters of the oil people is said to have a population of 600 Europeans.