"pressive it has delighted me to hear. Most all European inhabitants and visitors were there to hear news of the "Van Waerijick", now two days late. Most of us had only cargo to worry about but Hoogland's wife, married by "handschoen" or prox three weeks ago, is on the ship and he is in a frenzy of anxiety. Missionary Schneider came down from Sentani on Friday to make arrangements for the church wedding. By Friday evening the mission school next door to our house was gar- landed in and out with the attractive pale decorations of young coconut leaves split down the middle, gay crotons and pompoms of young palm leaf topped with the large orange fruits of an Ervatamia. Today the wilted decorations were being removed. Just as we got up from the lunch table at one o'clock the call of "sail-o" went up from the hundred or so natives who have camped on the beach since Friday-- the smoke of the steamer could be seen rising from behind the point. Rand was on board, with 2 east-Javanese cooks for the inland party and about 100 tons of cargo. Also, I was surprised to see Lieut. Schroder and seven soldiers had arrived with 900 packages of stores. Schroder, whom I met in Makassar, is attached to the military party of our expedition and had come to make prelimin- ary arrangements. Nobody in Hollandia knew of his coming. Had all hands working cargo until the ship left at 2 AM. Our raft proved a fine thing for the heavy cargo. On it about 15 tons of large packing cases were floated ashore. May 24th. All hands busy unloading the raft and stacking and unpacking cargo. We have from Manokwari --- c. meters of hardwood planking for the ramp, in addition to most of the expedition equipment from U.S.A. and food stores for two months. Our agents at Sourabaia and Makassar have bungled our stores shipment, as was the case last month. Much of the cargo has still to be unpacked and so far as can be seen in the absence of invoices, we are over a dozen cases short. There are no potatoes and no trade tobacco and a number of less important items of