Diary - Van Deusen Lae to Pindiu, Huon Peninsula, T. N. G. 21 April 1964 (Tuesday) In 1959 I saw the Saruwaged Mountains, the Cromwell Mountains, and the Rawlinson Range in the blue distance from the 15000 foot summit of Mt. Wilhelm in the massive Bismarck Range. That was when I determined to take an expedition into the heart of the storied Huon Peninsula, as rugged a bit of New Guinea as there is! The country that Christian Keysser, the German missionary-collector, Lane-Poole the botanist, Ernst Mayr, ornithologist, Detzner the German fugitive during World War I, Terry White the young Australian Patrol Officer whose name became a byword among his native friends for his love of climbing in the high country, and a few others of ventursome spirit found so fascinating. And now it is my turn! I so wish that Len Brass could have stepped into the Aztec with me this morning! This is the first of the Archbold Expeditions he has missed. But the spirit of this hard-bitten Australian will always be with me in the out-back. In his place is "Ru" Hoogland, the Dutch-born botanist. Len and I first met him in 1953 on the Cape Vogel Peninsula when we invited him to collect with us for a week in the hills behind Menapi. He is now married to an Australian girl and lives in Canberra. A strong walker and an excellent botanical collector, but a damned stubborn Dutchman, still. There may be a personality conflict among Ru, Stan, and Ken. However, he is first of all a professional and I have confidence we can endure. His report on the knocked-about condition of the Finschhafen environment was the key to our fixing on Pindiu as our base of operations in the center of the Huon. This cuts down on the time Stan and I will have in lowland rain forest, but on the other hand it