Sunday, 31 May 1964 Cloudy. Occasional light rain. Clouds on all the mountain tops. Clouds drifting in from the Kua and Mongi. A quiet day around the house Kiap. We are the center of all eyes here in the village of Tumnung; particularly of the younger children. Akinu, the native teacher from Mindik, came in to see us as the agent of the Mindik counselor who is sick. We asked him to pass the word that we would need carriers for tomorrow to take us over the divide down into the Bulum drainage as far as the village of Maran. A third day will be spent walking to the Bulum, crossing and going up the slopes of Mt. Rawlinson to our first camp. We are a bit bone weary but feeling generally fit today. At 2:45 we dressed + walked over to the Lutheran Mission to see Mr. + Mrs. Werner Jacobsen; he comes from Hamburg and Elizabeth from Neuendettelsau where the German Lutheran Church has its headquarters (also its museum, which must have a good deal of N.G. material). Maiden name, Grossmann. Two children, 3 and 7, boys. He first came to N.G. in 1954; she in 1955. They are most concerned about finishing the 2-way airstrip so that the Mission + commercial planes can service them. Village of Mindik is about an hour's walk to the N. Height of strip is 4100' (E-W); mission 4200'; house Kiap 4375'. They have made big wooden tampers to pound the airstrip hard. We had tea and home-made cake. Ken came in about 8:30 P.M. with almost all the remaining cargo from Pindiu (4 boxes only). I paid off carriers. We tried a bit of bat shooting + "fly-fished" for a while without success. To bed early on rubber mattress supplied by Stan.