May 30th. Several heavy showers before daylight. Thunder to NE about daybreak and again to W in early evening. A cloudy rainless day. The ramp is at last beginning to stretch down the beach. As Mielcke lays the logs I follow with the decking. Mixed developer and hypo ready to develop pictures when temperatures are suitable. This morning water left on the ground in a bucket was 82. f--in the waterbag, 76 f. Rand recorded a temperature of 76. f. at the spring near the hospital at 5.30 PM yesterday. These temperatures too high for fine grain work. The weather is decidedly warmer than during the past month. We miss the crisp mornings which we found so pleasant at first. The night's and early mornings however are still pleasantly cool. May 31st. Water temperature in vessels standing on the ground in the open yard of the house was 76. f. at 5 AM. My boys and I suffered from the heat a great deal while working on the ramp decking. Have reached the edge of the beach (19 m.) with the planks in 4 days. Mielcke spent most of the day hoisting a radio mast into a tall coconut tree near the end of the ramp. The other end of the antenna will be attached to a tall forest tree on the slope of the hillaabove camp. Rand started to build an atap house next to the main house for the accomodation of some of the white members of our party. Richardson has most of the floor laid in the coolie house. "e must finish this with split palm-trunks, as our supply of sawn tim- ber is running short. Pay-day for the cooks and Makassars and also the two local mandoers, Marcus and Cornelius. A deputation of Hollandia coolies made application for increased pay--and were refused their request. The last two days have been exceptionally hot and steamy after night rains and anyhow a month is a long time for a Papuan to last at hand work such as ours. We continue to purchase from village callers sufficient sago to feed our Sentani