20 March. Last night we were entertained by Dusty Miller for dinner and had an extremely pleasant time, so much so that during our return to the Bunting house, down the hill, Len fell over and I right behind him, fell over him, taking about four inches of skin off my face. Len then doctored me and we had to have another to recover from that grim business so we got little sleep. We rose at 5 to find Van and Ken already waiting us and going down to the dock found the Goblin loaded and ready. We left Samarai finally at 9700 but found her a very slow-moving ship. It was a very nice trip until about 1500, broken several times for tea, and then rain began to team down; we moved into the cabin but that was so hot that we couldn't stand much of it and tried the after part of the ship - the awnings had been taken down from the forward part in order to set sail since we were travelling so slowly under power. During the bright part ag year of the day we had clear views of the sea and the land but nightfall found us a long way away from our destination, Dogura, and trying to sleep in our chairs since there was not room enough on the decks for our cots. The various patches of raw flesh on my face have caused me to be called by the boys the "fighting tauhsda". A tauvsda (sic) is any white man or any boss, a general name throughout New Guinea and the East Indies. 21 March. It was 0100 this morning when we reached Dogura and as there are no toilet facilities aboard the Goblin, we were relieved in a very literal sense to get there. There are no toilets in Dogura either, for that matter, but there are trees. Then we set up our cots on the little wharf they have there and sank into sleep, to be wakened an hour later by another tropical rain storm so we climbed back aboard the Goblin and slept where we dropped. We left there at 0600, reaching Beniera about 1400 where the patrol Officer, Tony Shewes, joined us and came on to Menapi. There the Goblin's dinghy did most of the unloading of stores and equipment but we were surrounded bt outrigger canoes, some of which helped in the unload- ing until one of them tipped over and lost a 70 lb. sack of sugar. Len and Ken had gone ashore and I had not seen that the stuff was being loaded onto the outriggers until too late; After that accident I watched all sides of the boat and we had no more accidents. We were invited to tea at the Mission after I paid off the helpers with a stick of tobacco each, and were given tea and chocolate cake by Father Chisholm and a lay assistant, Miss Kimear, and then moved into our quarters, a very roomy hut, on stilts and made of split bamboo with a palm thatch roof. I will not attempt any de- scription of Menapi until I have had a bit more time to examine it, but at least we are here, and here we shall stay for some time. There seems to be a population of less than a hundred and not a rag of clothing beyond grass skirt and loin cloth between them. This evening, as I am writing this, Len is entertaining Fred Mason, one of the two or three traders here, van and Ken have gone out huntingand their guns are benging now and then in the dis- tance and it is getting near time to go to bed. I'll close up. Sunday 22 March. Most of the day was taken up with making camp and I think I shall not start with much in the way of description. The morning was spent in erecting camp, getting flys rigged, pata-patas rigged, work tables set up and the boys divided. I get Niko and Billee, none of whom knows anything about a gun, and tried my hand at Motu in explaining how things should be done. Tomorrow I take them out with live ammunition and let them try out on floating coconuts; it will be only on my recommend- ation that the District Officer will issue a permit for them to shoot. Be- recruits are easy to handle but we [illegible] shall have some language differences to oversome. I have made up with Bluey's help , a sort of vocabulery of Motu words in which I am interested and with the aid of signs will be able to put them over, I fancy. In a couple of days Bluey will be leaving with his boy, David, to work out the approaches to Mt. Maneao, Mt. Datman on the maps, which we have selected in preference to Mt. Simpson on account of the fact that Shaw