Keglsugl Saturday, June 6. A big day in importance for our expedition. The first charter flight took the air from Goroka at 7:12. The second flight left at 8:58 and landed on Keglsugl strip at 9:22 (flight time, engines on to engines off, reckoned at 28 minutes in, about 25 minutes out. The morning broke completely overcast and with a white fog cloud in the lower part of the Asaro Valley which hung there until after the first flight took off then closed in over the bottom end of the strip. The valley cleared before the Otter returned from Keglsugl, but the day remained completely overcast. Conditions were ideal for our air transport. A sunny day would have meant clouds in the valleys in the afternoon and probable rain. The flights (Captain Ross Crabb, co-pilot Jim Taylor) were without incident. Neither pilot had landed at Keglsugl before. To test take-off capacity with a load on the Otter, they did two experimental take-off with about 1500 pounds of our cargo on board. As a result, we will be limited to 1500-1600 payload on our evacuation from here, which will mean two charter flights. The store shed which Acting A.D.O. Dwyer of Kundlawa promised to have built for us was not built. As far as I can make out without further inquiry, Dwyer sent word for the house to be built, but the matter was referred to the priest at nearby Dengalagu Mission. Whether the priest was for or against it (the talk is that the approval of the bishop was necessary), the job was not done. The mission has a good small store house about 12 feet square on the edge of the strip, and we forthwith put our cargo into it. Through Luluai Kindua of Waimambuno, who was on the strip with a crowd of other men, women and children (many handshakes and smiles and "good mornings"), work was started on a 12 x 15 house for us as soon as I arrived. Some of the workers a picturesque sight with goldlip pearlshell neck and face ornaments. The young men inclined to loaf. Diverse bits of European clothing worn by these people, the most unusual being what looked open-knitted skullcaps made of raw wool. For some reason, Luluai Kindua left for Kundlawa (a two-day journey) an hour or so after I arrived. As so many men worked more or less on the house building job, we felt it wise to delay payment until the return of the Luluai (a luluai is a chief appointed by the government, under him are several tultuls or headmen). There was not general agreement on this, although some of the older men (who did most of the work) were for it. As our house could not be other than a hurried job, and doubtfully weather proof for long, I sent a note to the priest at the mission (said to be 1500-1800 ft. below us) asking permission to use his shed. A cordial assent has arrived. The father is Dutch (Beutener ?) and a new man at Dengalagu. This evening the boys are in the new house and Van, John and I are in a tent. Light rain began about 5 o'clock and now at 5:50 the temperature is a chilly 65 F. Van and John showed symptoms of the pidemic flu or Echo 6 or whatever it is yesterday. An antihistamine seems to have arrested Van's, but John has been quite ill this afternoon with headache, diarrhoea, etc. The epidemic is affecting many people in Goroka. With the onset of the rain, the crowd which has been around us all day disappeared. A pleasant people, though not overly clean for the most part. The women brought us food for payment in money. Tonight we have plenty of English potatoes, sweet potatoes, cabbage, shallots, leeks, tomatoes, green beans and broad beans to last us until our departure up the mountain Monday morning.