except the utter inability of the boys to get a strap around a box for the weighing; they are not very complicated straps, but just a little too much. Ken is trying to teach his personal boy David (Bonauba Lelemedi) to subtract and claims that he can already add and multiply; while weighing up boxes which had to be eighty pounds, a two-man load, one came to fifty-seven pounds and Ken asked how much more was needed to make up eighty pounds. After a full quarter of an hour the answer came - thirteen. Another story on Ken came out after his return from his Maneau climb; he came into camp full of beans and very proud of his muscles; he was wearing, as he qIways does, shorts, but a day or so after his return he admitted that the natives said they were tired of his legs and glad when put on long pants. The European Medical Officer from Baniara came in today and was expected to lunch; he did not show up (a rather ineffectual chap) but was found in the evening sitting on the beach outside our rest-house, which is a Govt-maintained place and more his than ours. He came to supper and in a moment I must ask him about the tooth impressions for which I gave Tony the compound. 22 April. Today has been somewhat uneventful and last night I slept so smoothly that I had difficulty in getting myself going at all, I waked once at the sound of something roaming around the rest-house and turned on my lamp, but could see nothing and soon was gone again. This morning I found out that I had disturbed Ken, but there was no other repercussion. Going my rounds after breakfast, I took my camera for a change, as I wanted to get a picture of an opening in the forest where sago was being prepared, at some time, not now, by the Menapi locals. It clouded up when I got there so I do not know how the photo will turn our. In the afternoon there was some turmoil between Ken and his personal boy, David, and Ken has gone for the night to do some hunting on hiw own, leaving David behind and teking Jimmy. I think it might be of interest to list the boys' real names and their adopted ones; they rarely use their second, or sur-, names bedause in most cases their fathers are dead. They take their father's name in addition to their own given name, but one does not mention the name after the possessor has passed away. My own boys are: Niko Maleaina Louena Bili Tadigwa Lolodi Len's boys are: Sigimutu Sigimutu Tamada;aga. The only one whose real name is used. Tomi Eduna Naivina Robi Elumana Niudede Van's boys are: David Bonauba Lelemedi. (Actually Ken's boy). Isolele Kawabole Louena (Niko's brother). Lik-lik Nuakebi Kaisula The cooks are: Keem Capodia Aboakera Losimo Nagivalina Koluea And that is the staff. Before I forget for the record, I must record that the name of the Baniara medical bloke who dines with us last night is Jack Peters. After finishing last night's entry, I asked him about the tooth problem. Apparently Tony had asked him and Peters simply said , "No, too much trouble" or something like that, which explains Tony's quietness about it. Finally, after I explained how easy it was to do, how we dare not on account of puri-puri, and that he would receive an engraved letter of thanks, all that plus my personal charmand best Belgravia English, he said that it would be no trouble at all and not only would he do it in the Baniara hospital, but also when he was on walk-about on his rounds. Somehow, I am still skeptical. It has rained a little this afternoon and the evening is humid with practically no wind, yet there are no bugs at the light-trap. It is hard to understand the insect population. 21 April. This morning I went in a new direction, down towards Baniara but off to the right in order to get to the headwaters of the river, Oka Wabero,