89 Pengagl Creek Tuesday, July 14. Max. 19, min. 5 C. A clear night followed by the coldest morning (39 F.) since we have been at this camp. Today fine and for the most part with only scattered clouds. We are enjoying this weather. Our guests, in company with John, Demkana, Wok, and the policeman, left camp for the lakes at 7:30 a.m. and returned at 4 p.m. Had very good weather. A gang had been sent to repair the road, but they did not start until late yesterday and this morning the party found the improvements to extend only about 10 minutes up the mountain. Bill Seale, a big, heavy man, probably in his early fifties, had hard going. Ken James and John went on to the second lake. Seale will have the trail put in proper order - promptly. He is much interested in facilitating the travel of anyone who wishes to climb the mountain. Botanized down the creek to beyond its junction with the Iabuka and got a bag sufficient to make it necessary to run a double drying shift tomorrow. A rather surprising number of alpine herbaceous plants descend the streamway to this altitude. This morning I collected one of the two species of "New Guinea Edelweiss" (Anaphalis). A buttercup, an Epilobium, etc. are common in the creek bed. Jacking last night, Kim shot a fine Pseudocheirus cupreus - new for this camp. Our guests return to Goroka in the morning, taking mails and films for processing (13 films of mine, and about as many of Van's). Wednesday, July 15. Max. 18.0, min. 5 C. Last night clear at first, later clouding. Today generally overcast with heavy clouds. Light rain began at 4:30 p.m. and ended within the hour. Evening overcast; clearing later. District Commissioner Seale and K.C. James returned to Goroka this morning by chartered Cessna 180; John went down to the strip to see them off. Had to stay in camp this morning to prepare a quantity of material on hand from yesterday's gathering. Botanized up the creek, and down the old trail through the forest back to camp. Visibility bad most of the time. Eight or ten numbers included a showy cream and purple Dendrobium of lowland rather than highland affinities, and a Fagraea, the latter a minor canopy tree and the first of the genus seen on the mountain. John, on his visit to Lakes Piunde-Aunde yesterday took the temperature of the water of the lower lake. Surprisingly (if accurately recorded), the temperature 4 inches and about 12 inches below the surface was 14 C. The temperature of Pengagl Creek at our camp today was 11 C. at 1 p.m. Thursday, July 16. Max. 16.0, min. 5 C. Overcast dawn, ditto most of morning, a little rain between 12:30 and 1 p.m., some sun in early afternoon. Botanized up the creek to Gilliard's Camp, thence down the old trail to camp. Paid most attention to an area of an cre or more of Equisetum-Carex bog a little towards the mountain on the trail from Gilliard's camp site at an altitude of 9750 ft. according to my aneroid on June 6 (roughly 3000 m.). A number of alpine