24 April.(cont). I had to finish this day in a hurry in order to catch the Betty Ann which came in, Samarai-bound, rather unexpectedly, and, while I do not have much to add to what has already been written, there is a little. Just after we had finished supper and were about to settle down to our respective evening chores, a drum sounded outside and a moment later the Menapi dance team, resplendent in fea- thers, accoutrements of white, tail pieces and so on appeared. Even some of th4 girls were painted with white and dressed up, an unusual thing; and a dance started outside our house. Our boys listened for a while and then it became too much for them; they started their own dance. It turns out that it is "pay back" for the dance Ken put on when he returned from Maneau, and as Ken is at Baniara, it is more or less love's labor lost, though he arrived back before the end of it. 25 April. There was rather more to the dance than we understood last night. Not only was it pay-back for the previous party but it was also a sort of farewell as the rumor of our departure has already gone abroad. Tobacco was sent out towards the end of the dance and then Ken made a speech on behalf og all of us, thanking the Menapi people for their hospitality and telling them that nothing had been stolen or missed since our arrival and that the face of the people of Menapi was clean in our sight. They selected a spokesman to reply, after considerable mumbling and debate, who said that we had given them one feast and tobacco last night, and that their belly was warm (they were happy about the whole thing). After we had gone they would speak of us and our visit would never be forgotten. As Ken said, the Bull was flying thick and fast. Peter O'Sullivan came over for lunch this afternoon; there was no shipping news and the appearance of the judge has now been put off until June 1st. The Menapi villagers had challenged our boys to a game of football, but their team did not show up and a game developed among ourselves. I played myself, as goalkeeper, and made some remarkable saves, remarkable, that is, for a bloke of my age who has not touched a football since 1919. Which being translated means that the ball happened to hit me and would otherwise have been a sure goal. The Europeans did not last the course and retired for sundowners about 1730, at which time the ladies of Menapi were on their way to prayer meeting clutching their hymn books; our boys were still playing and the girls found football of much more interest than prayers and proceeded to do our boys up good and proper, all the time clutching their hymn and prayer-books. All whites, regardless of their nationalities, are referred to as Europeans in Papua. Tony Skewer, Peter told us, is being transferred back to Samarai and Peter will be on his own; he does not know what will be done in the matter of his patrol, but hopes to see us some- where later. Sunday, 26 April. Peter stayed last night and the evening was spent yarning; Ken's remark about the Menapi evening could apply once more, I suspect. I forgot to say that we held a pay parade yesterday afternoon, issued the new lap-laps and took pictures of the boys. The monkey design was not accepted too rapturously as they know about people up in the mountains who have tails and big ears. When they sit down, they make holes in the floor through which their tails hang, and if it is cold, they pull their ears about them and sit muddled up with their tails out in the cold. However, be- ing the last pay before our departure for the mountains, they all collected what was due them for overtime and vanished for the evening; this morning they (the boys) have broken out in a rash of new pipes and probably their money has been extracted by the time- honored means. Losima and Keem take alternate Saturdays and Sundays off. Yesterday was Keem's and Losima had the misfortune to be the cook on the day the the Govt. man (Peter) arrived. He performed well, however, apart from putting too much water in the soup and metho indtead of kerosene in the pressure lamps, and was duly complimented. As assistant he had Len's boy, Tomi, and passed on to Tomi with interest the rough treatment which Keem is wont to shower on him (Losima). I went up the gully about 1600 after all hands spent an easy day; the boys had asked for a Sunday off and this was it, so we took things light- ly, read, packed up some stuff and so on. On my return from my little constitutional Ken told me that the football had been brought out again and the little boys of the village, kids of nine and ten who had been forced to go to Church, came from Church and played with such venom that they almost put the big boys off the field. It just shows what religion can do to a football team. Apart from that little bit of news I do not have very much to add to the previous part of this day's entry.