95 Pengagl Creek Papuacedrus grows to large size and provides the bark which to some extent at least is used for house walls by the local Chimbus. The general procedure is to cut a tree down to get the bark, which is stripped in sections over the length of the trunk. Sometimes the bark is removed from the base of a tree as high as a man can reach with an axe, and as no strip of covered cambium is left to feed sap to the tree, it dies. One finds dead Papuacedrus trees, mostly fine big clear-boled specimens, all through the forest of the ridges. Another very rare mammal - Macrouromys - came to Van's table today, trapped in Iumbaga Creek by John, in a steel set. Tuesday, July 28. Max. 1.0, min. 6.5 C. Clear night; thin high cloud at dawn; heavy overcast by 8 a.m.; drizzling rain about 11 on and off to mid afternoon. Lousy weather for field work. The forests very wet (moss saturated on trees and ground), visibility very poor. Botanized up Pengagl Creek to where the Piunde-Aunde trail starts up the mountain side, and from there followed the creek a short distance upstream to a slumping area of about an acre on the high south bank. The earth movement here is old. At the head of the slump area much timber lies buried to a depth of several feet - one log over 1 ft. in diameter, brown and crumbling with age. A major movement in this slump area could dam the creek at any time, and cause another devastating flood with the bursting of the dam. Made a circuit from the head of the slump area by a faint trail through very mossy, rather low forest, back to the creeks to where the mountain road begins. Trees largely Podocarpus papuanus and Decaspernum; short-leaved Quintinia of July 24, and a Timonius common. In this forest was encountered as a ground plant a very fragrant Piper seen elsewhere only in the subalpine forest of the lower part of Piunde-Aunde Valley. A red Rhododendron with leaves brown floccose underneath was abundant on the unstable ground of the slump area; a coarse Carex with cylindrical spikes, Anaphalis spp. 2 (lorentzii and edelweiss with green upper leaf surface), Epilobium etc. of the alpine; also the common Equisetum of open ground. Wednesday, July 29. Max. 16, min. 8.0 C. Threatening early, following a dark cloudy night; clearing by about 9 a.m.; scattered clouds and hot sun thereafter; no rain. The weather looked doubtful when I set out at 8 o'clock to work lower levels than hitherto touched on the slopes. Tracks very muddy and stinking of pigs down to near the top end of Keglsugl strip. Boys, having been told this would be the last day in the field for this camp, in high spirits. "Pig workem this road, now puttem scent"; "Bineby Friday you me taken cargo place balus, some man, mary fall down, arse belong him kaikai ground," etc. Went to the lower end of the air strip, then down a small track through tall pitpit, then sweet potato gardens and scattered homesteads to the main creek 400-500 ft. below the strip. The first homestead we struck had an old-established look. A planted Nothofagus tree was fully 60 ft. high. The owner, an old man, was picking short grass from under the shade of the trees round his house when I came upon him. Clad in an old great coat, perhaps acquired during World War II and worn constantly and not washed since then, he led me through the long-grass fallow below him to the river.