Kaindi John accompanied me to prospect the country for wallaby signs and set a few steel traps. He followed the Watut branch of the train, and, descending some distance, got into tall primary forest described as open underneath (oak-Castanopsis?). We got back to camp at 2:15. Young Richard Leahy arrived about noon to spend some time with us (no mention made of how long). Brought a boy and plenty of food. Bill Bradley dropped in about 5:30 with some fresh meat he had brought up from Wau. Tackled our O.P. rum; could not handle it well; stayed to a rather noisy and late dinner of Kim's curry and rice, preceded by mushroom soup of the Maggi variety. A surprise package for Van from Clissold this morning consisting of a box containing a dozen small Miniopterus caught by the mine boys last night in an old mining drive. Friday, May 22. An early mackerel sky cleared away and a fine day followed. Mist came up over the mountain top from the SE at intervals after 11 am. (the valley below us was filled with fog early this morning). Mist on the mountain this evening, and a sprinkle of rain toward dusk. The several rainless days have exhausted the 100-gal. water storage at our cottage, and we are carrying from the ample tanks of Bob Franklin. Took advantage of the fine day to visit Mt. Kaindi again. John drove me to the end of the vehicular road at 7400 ft. and from there I botanized to the top of the mountain at 7750 ft. Collected a nice lot of subcanopy and sub-stage trees in flower (a number of them just coming into flower), among them a golden-pubescent Pygeum, a second Polyosma for the mountain, an Acro ychia which seems to be the preferred timber for mine props, and about the fifth sp. of Eurya for the locality. Almost every tree species collected had obtuse, convex leaves, quite a number of them with actually rounded leaf tips. Almost every day I add something new in Ericaceae. Today it was a very slender, pendent, epiphytic Vaccinium with pink flowers tipped with green. Returned to camp by the short cut in 55 minutes; down the power line from near the summit of the mountain to Cash's Camp, thence down the branch of the Meari which I followed a couple of days ago. A woolly Melomys started to turn up in traps a day or two ago (a line trapped out of the abundant Rattus niobe) and this morning there were four of them. Nothing shot for the last several nights. Moon too bright for jacking. John and young Richard tried for the wallaby along the Bulldog Road last night and saw nothing. Tonight they are on the Watut fall where John set steel traps yesterday. Took food, and will jack back. Saturday, May 23. Fresh wind blowing down from the SE at dawn, with heavy clouds, and mist on the high places on and off for a good part of the day. Clear this evening. No rain. Went up the mountain again, this time driving to near the end of the motor road at 7400 feet and walking back along said road. (What I have been calling Cash's Camp turned out today to be an old camp of Jentzsch's. Cash's Camp is in the next ravine to the north on the west slopes of Kaindi Mountain). Collecting rather poor. I seem to have most of the plants collectable at this time. Today's special prize was a common and conspicuous Dimorphanthera with almost white flowers; about the 4th sp. of the genus for this locality.