Pengagl Creek Saturday, July 18. Max. 19.5, min. 6.5 C. Good clear day until about 3 p.m. Smart rain from a thunderstorm over Bundi Gap from 4:15 to 5:30. Worked until midnight last night to catch up with the drying of plants, and had to spend the morning in camp to deal with material on hand. Am still a day ahead of the dryer. Botanized in the afternoon down the Keglsugl trail to near the edge of the primary forest, then across Labuka Creek just above the junction of a big stream which rises in Jimmi Gap (confusing name, for the Jimmi River is far from this gap). Followed the Jimmi stream up a little, and it being un- fordable for a booted man, sent the boys across to investigate the other side, on which there is good tall forest. The locality yielded the first Ficus and the first Impatiens (salmon pink) for the mountain - altitude about 8500 feet. Rhododendron macgregorae, past flowering, grew on the steep sunny banks of the stream. No jacking last night. Another Anisomys in traps this morning. Van now has 27 species of mammals for this camp, which is good for New Guinea. The natives say that tree-climbing kangaroos and Zaglossus occur here, but are seldom seen. A hunting party of three, including Wok with a gun, camped last night on the next big creek to the south to hunt Dendrolagus, but came back with a rather stale Pseudocheirus forbesi. Luluai Kindua claims all the land over there. Sunday, July 18. Max. 18, min. 7 C. Somewhat cloudy at times, but one of these rare days with no rain at all. The cloud drift here is practically always from the east. Must be deflected SE weather, for the SE has been blowing at Goroka for some time. Followed one of our new trails across to Piunde-Aunde Creek. Not much in the way of plants. That is a poor locality botanically. Struck the creek where a seepage slope of about 1/2 acre is covered with tall pit-pit (wild sugarcane) in which grow a scattering of the carnation-scented Rhododendron and second growth trees of the forest: mainly Saurauia with big, prickly leaves. Some small sap- lings of Papuacedrus also there on the wet ground (and in a Pandanus swamp near camp). Many mammals today from new traplines. Possibly a Pogonomys (sylvestris) new to the collection. A big water rat in one of John's steels over on Piunde- Aunde Creek. Looks like Hydromys, but the muzzle is very broad and the hair brownish and somewhat bristly. The end of the tail is missing. The Chimbus would appear to have adopted a 5 1/2 day week. On Saturday afternoons we have numerous visitors; Sundays the same. The women bring food to sell for salt or money (the younger ones doing a lot of loitering and tittering lately); the men and small boys frogs and skinks and the odd mammal. Usually there are a few mangled butterflies or damselflies, or a flowering branch or two for me. Monday, July 20. Max. 19.5, min. 7.0 C. Weather as yesterday until 4:15 when light rain started from a thunderstorm to the SE and lasted until 5:30 p.m. Light rain from 6:30 to about 8 last night. Followed the old road to Gilliard's camp site and the creek beyond, thence down the creek home. One of those disappointing days. The undergrowth along the