80 Piunde-Aunde/Pengagl Creek Sunday, June 28. A day almost as yesterday, but mist clouds began driving over from c. east about 11 am. After that we had only occasional glimpses of the higher peaks. By 4.30 the usual white cloud mass from the Ramu was spilling over into the head of the Chimbu through Bundi Pass. Max. 14.5, min. 2.5 C. The day spent in the finnick business of packing collections and gears in preparation for tomorrow's move down the mountain. I plan to collect on the trail tomorrow, the plants from the alpine and subalpine to be considered a part of the collection from this camp. I still have to examine the alpine grasslands of the lower 1/4 mile of the glacial valley, and the subalpine forests which extend to an unknown distance below that (visibility was very poor when I climbed the mountain nearly three weeks ago). John left for Keglsugl this afternoon to take charge of the transport in the morning. The carriers coming up the mountain will bring the 5 weeks' supplies which we left in the mission store shed at the airstrip. Leaving these loads at the new camp, they will continue on up here to Piunde-Aunde, and move our loads from here down to the new camp on Pengagl Stream. Some of the boys have washed clothing and "cold shirts" (sweaters) today. All look forward to the vacation of this camp tomorrow. Morale has been good for the past week or so. Earlier, when we had so much sickness, and the weather was so bad, I thought at times that it might be necessary for us to shorten our planned stay of three weeks. Botanizing time was cut short 2 days by sickness and one day by bad weather impossible for field work. The last two or three days have been of a character that will leave pleasant memories of the camp. With the fine weather the nights have been colder. This morning was the coldest since I have had the max. and min. thermometers rigged. And as the grass of the walls of our hut has dried it has shrunk and loosened on the framework. Now we have so much ventilation that when the cook lights his fire in the morning, in the kitchen nearby, the smoke filters through the walls and fills our place. We have only one more night of risk of the hut going up in smoke. We have a fire in the evening, and leave it burn low after we got to bed. The central fireplace, now burned about 6 inches deep in the peaty soil, is surrounded by a curbing of small logs. The rest of the floor is covered with an inch or two of dry grass, which serves as a carpet and on which we spread our bedding. About every other night this grass catches fire. Monday, June 29. A fine day for our move down to Pengagl Creek. With my two botany boys I left Piunde-Aunde Camp at 7:55, leaving Van to attend to final details of breaking camp. Met the first carriers coming up the trail well before 9 o'clock, and John about 9:30. Altimeter read 12,150 ft. at the top camp; it was 11,600 ft. when we arrived on the 8th. Following altitudes are today's readings, and will need to be adjusted when the aneroid can be checked or a possible present atmospheric low is over. Started collecting just below my previous lowest point in the glacial valley, at 11,350 ft., and between there and the lip of the valley at 11,300 ft. collected a big Quintinia which occurred at the top camp but was only in flower bud there, a third Podocarpus sp. for this subalpine forest, 2 Elaeocarpus spp., Dodonaea viscosa (a solitary small tree), etc. new to the collection. The most important of these probably a white-flowered Decaspermum, first seen or recognized today