26 is a row of about half a dozen houses occupied by Europeans. The dominating scenic feature of the place is the cold bulk of the Arfak Mountains, rising clear and blue in the still morning air, some five miles southward along the coast. The most prominent planted tree in the town is kapok. On the 15th I radioed from Batjan an enquiry to Manokwari for sawn timber for use in Hollandia Base. Yesterday I received a reply to the effect that no timber would be available until next boat. Upon looking through the sawmill this morning I found a quantity of timber which I was able to purchase and have shipped today. The timber is one of the 24 kinds of hardwood sawn here under the collective name of "eisenholtz" or ironwood. Price f.50 per cubic meter. The natives of Manokwari are a disgrace to Government and Mission. A wretched dirty people dressed either in perineal bangs or semi-Malay costume, physically unattractive and often infected with tinea and ulcerous sores. I have never seen natives, in the neighbourhood of a town, so obviously neglected. April 21st. A severe thunderstorm and thick weather prevented us reaching the port of Wasior last night. At daylight we were steaming down the narrow and deep Wandamen Bay and soon afterwards dropped anchor at Wasior to load Mosoia berk, the dry stumps and roots of a fragrant wood called Ganaroe in true Malay and Tjsudana locally, trachus--a pearl shell. The K.P.M. steamer calls only once in two months at this place. Native population is evidently scanty and it is of chief importance as the site of the Protestant mission training school for native teachers. There is a mixture of native peoples here. Some we saw are dark "Jewish" Papuans, other a Melanesian type with frizzy hair and light skin. Canoe construction is generally superior to anything seen on the Vogelkop. One canoe was shaped ---- like the Solomon Islands "bena-benas" but with two outriggers and ornamented with large white cowries, etc. Ernst Mayr made collections at Wasior some few years ago. It looks a promising locality.--Mountains rise directly.