[Journal, 7th Archbold Expedition to New Guinea] April 21 to June 1, 1964
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- 4 - the trip, an old male, near a large breadfruit tree. The moon will be full in a few days and jack-lighting will suffer. There were a few small bats flying at dusk near our grass house. Their turn will come tomorrow night. A small frog that calls persistently from a pandanus has aroused our curiosity and Stan hopes to record its song. Ken is on the ball and has organized a small house and a bath house down the slope from our hut. Kim, my good friend and cook from Goodenough Island, has not arrived in camp yet so Ken whipped up a proper kai, hot stew with kidneys and meat balls. No jacking tonight. The trail STan and I followed earlier in the day has only second or third growth trees. We will have to go a lot further out to find arboreal marsupials. However, there are bandicoot signs in the gardens. A full day. How satisfying to be in the bush again!