20k May 27, 1939. Sorong to Waigeu Leaving Sorong, sometime late at night we anchored at the uninviting wayside part of situated on a tiny island off the south coast of Waigeu. Here, what little trade there is is apparently in the hands of shifty looking Malays and Arabs, and we took on board a few boatloads of copra. The long roughly mountainous island of Waigeu rises nowhere higher than m. Hills of coral limestone, completely forested except for some bare faces of yellow and in one place dazzling white rock, rise from the sea and are only very occasionally broken by little coves in which coco- nuts are planted. The mountains of the interior seem to lie in parallel ridges running to roughly east and west. These summits show a curious irregularly sinuate outline, like "haycock" limestone. Miss Cheeseman, who spent some months collecting in the interior last year, says these curious ridges are of an older crystalline limestone, while the highest peak (Nog) is of almost vertically bedded slate. Thousands of tall feather palms, with small crowns and apparently rather large fruits (Phytococcus?) protruding above the forest like maps presented to the sky, are a notable feature of the nearer ridges. Later in the morning we anchored at the small island of Yef off the western end of Waigeu to load steelwood logs for Ambon. In the broad bay are numerous low coral islands, some of them completely covered with coconut palms. Yef is one of these latter, situated at least 3-4 miles from the mainland. Here lives a German named Stuber and his wife -- hearty, bluff, but no doubt very business like people if one may judge from the appearance of their shore establishment, neat motor boat, and good crew of natives. Natives of Papuan blood, similar to those of Japen and Wandamen Bay. The logs loaded here were smaller than those from Woi Bay, and squared.