pipeline out to their base about 15 km. away. Besides motorboats and many canoes, a steam.barge of shallow draft for river work was anchored at the camp. About six white men (using the word term in a broad sense)x term in a broad sense) came off to the ship and sat drinking until it was time for us to leave, about 3.30. All these men showing signs of fever. So far as I am able to make out the Dutch fear the effects of a daily quinine ration, take about 2 x 2 sugar c coated pills a week and when the inevitable fever appears, swallow the stuff in large doses. To me it seems more sensible to take quinine regularly as a daily ration of 5 grs and by this means keep the fever from taking a violent form. In some other res pects the Dutch idea of conduct in the tropics differs from any I have observed before. Their idea of shutting a room up tightly during the heat of the day to keep it cool, and letting it stay tightly shut during the night to keep out the cooler night air seems strange to me. Anchored at Sorong soon after dark to deliver mixed cargo and to take on a consignment of 90 cubic meters of ironwood for Manokwari. This timber is shipped in the log and sawn at the Government mill at Manokwari for use in the construction of new military barracks. Sorong, like all the settlements in the far east of the Indies, is much larger than I expected to see. There are at least half a dozen Chinese stores, two of them being quite sizable establishments, and the European population at the present numbers eleven. These latter include the Americans, Mr. and Mrs. Crockett, Mrs. Lowndes and Mr. Ripley of the Dennison- Crockett Expedition. The chief of the expedition is Mrs. C., whose particular line is ethnology. Her husband assists her and does photography, Mrs. L. is a writer and young Ripley is a trained (Yale) ornithologist. The various branches of the party work more or less independently. Ripley has just returned from a trip of some months in the Tamrau Mountains on the Vogelkop. He starts back for U.S.A. by the returning