35 a rijst-tafel with the gesagheber. Late in the afternoon, when I had got over the sluggishness of overeating, I walked out along the Sentani road for a distance of about 1/2 mile. After crossing the gravelly, reed-fringed river on a rickety bridge of loose logs laid in pairs and supported by piles, the gradee road commences a sidelong climb through second growth rain forest on the steep wall of the valley. The rock here is perhaps a grey serpentine crumbling away in small landslipson the deforested slopes. Macaranga spp.? Pipturus, Breynia, Premna, Blachnum orientale and Pennisetum macrostachyum are prominent among the on these slopes and along the track, as everywhere about Hollandia. Chrysopaga acicularis. At about 300 feet altitude the track passes through a red soil gap in the parallel ridge which walls the valley. Here the ring ridge is topped by vertical cliffs of crystalline limestone, those seen being 10 to 50 feet high, but the rich looking primary forest screens them for the most part. In the gap is the home of one of the half-caste colonist families, immediately beyond which the track enters the head of a forested ravine at the farthest point reached by me. This particular family of colonists is apparently lazy and not particularly clean. The house seemed untidy, dirty bedclothes hung over the railings and in the very inadequate garden a blowsy middle-aged woman and her lanky son worked bare-footed planting out tomatoes. The garden also contained a few sweet potatoes and odd plants of taro. About a dozen head of cattle, 20 pigs and perhaps 20 strange-looking black-eyed sheep and divers ill-bred fowls com- prised the livestock. A society in Java supplies these poor people with rice and therefore they do not have to work to eat. May 2nd. With 16 more Sentanis and four new hands picked from about 20, locals offering this morning, we had today 119 coolies on the job--more than we can use to best advantage. Also 53 Sentanis are too many to feed from our stock of rice. Sago is slow coming in. The erection of the frame timbers of the first godown was nearly completed by Mielke's gang. Richardson started to erect the posts of the