Kaindi 54 The mine must be very payable. The boys, without supervision, were working as well and as interestedly as if they owned the show. Jentzsch must be a good master. Several of his leading boys have worked for him for years, he says, and several are paid 5 pounds a month, which is good pay for this country. Boys who stay with him get a monthly increase of 5/- after every year of service. Followed the Jentzsch water race about half mile up the slopes, then climbed a steep pinch to Cash's Camp, only an estimated 300 feet below the summit of the mountain. Cash, an old timer who was working good leaders with boxes, died last November. His house is vacant. Seven of Jentzsch's boys live in three well built galvanized shacks. This and all the slopes above Meari Creek on my route were in the upper beech forest zone. I saw few big beeches, however, though Phyllocladus and Podocarpus papuanus were prominent. Returned down the mountain by an old path which followed a main branch of the Meari. A long morning, but collecting was good. Returned to camp at 12:30 to find there Horrie Clissold and a stranger named Ryan of the Lae police force who had got a lift most of the way up from Wau on a Roads Dept. truck and walked up the new road to the top of Kaindi Mt. Ryan a clean, pretty well educated type who has done some wandering. Was 14 months in the Toronto police force in the early fifties and travelled extensively in the U.S. Clissold the loud, it turns out, is a son-in-law of Jentzsch. Ryan holds the rank of Sub-Inspector, the junior rank for a white policeman in P-NG since the war. Pre-war, Port Moresby had one white policeman, with the rank of constable. Ryan is on local leave and seeing a bit of the country. Thursday, May 21. An overcast and much warmer early morning was followed by another fine day without rain. Some cloud tonight, but the almost full moon and many stars are showing at 8:30. Took advantage of the good weather to cross the valley westwards to the Bulolo-Watut Divide. A good old jeep road crosses Edie Creek just above the junction of the Meari and climbs to Slate Creek and the abandoned Enterprise Mine. The buildings of this mine, formerly managed by Jentzsch, are at an estimated 6500-6600 ft. A steep track goes up a grassy and ferny slope and into second growth forest, and about 300 ft. above the Enterprise cuts a formed track coming from the direction of Edie Creek mining camp and there reaching the top of the divide. Followed this old pack road for 1/3rd to 1/2 mile through second growth forest. The track travelled somewhat but not maintained, and often deep in mud and slush. Forest apparently was Nothofagus dominated. One mining drive seen, and several costeens cut the track. When primary forest was entered I could not recognize Nothofagus with certainty, but Phyllocladus, Podocarpus pilgeri and P. papuanus were there. Also some sapling Papuacedrus, a big Schizomeria sporadic in all the beech forests of this area, and, commonest of all, a small-leaved tree with usually very straight bole (sub-canopy and sometimes canopy) which Jentzsch uses for mine timbers, and as yet not found in fertile condition by me. Where the track forked, in fine tall primary forest about a mile from the Enterprise, one branch descending toward the Watut River, the other continuing along the crest of the divide in the general direction of Bulolo, the forest was dominated by brownish leaved Castanopsis and great, blackish boled Phyllocladus. The canopy rather open and in consequence, the small-leaved scrambling bamboo (everywhere in fertile condition) ran rampant. The altitude must have been about 7000 feet. No Nothofagus seen there. The only other Castanopsis-Phyllocladus forest I have seen was at the head of Edie Creek, above the mining camp.