Gono 113 Botanized along the road towards Lufa a distance of 35 minutes fast walking and down to an altitude of about 6200 ft. (1890 m.), most of the time in mist. Plants collected mainly of the ravines where the facies is of mixed rain forest. The two spp. of oaks noted yesterday grow commonly on the steep spur crests with a variety of other big trees, none of them known to me. No beeches seen. They may come in higher on the slopes. Van not getting much in mammals. Today, however, the remains of a strange rodent with white feet and tail tip were brought in from traps. They had been partly eaten by pigs but there is a skull. John went in search of a reputed bat cave on the Gono Spur yesterday afternoon but failed to find it. His guide suddenly forgot the whereabouts of the cave ! This afternoon both John and Van made another try, with the same results. The formation of the spur is mudstone and a real cave is unlikely to occur. They followed an established trail along the comb of a high scarp which drops westerly to the Asaro Gorge. Distances about a mile according to Van. The natives tell of a big tailless animal which lives in the cave, raids their gardensm and eats pigs and babies. The people around here also believe in the little folk. Friday, August 28. The best day of weather since we have been here. Cleary early a.m. except for the high mountain peaks. Top of Mt. Michael almost showed out of the clouds about 6 a.m. a little to the S of E from camp. Rain and mist intermittently from 1:30 p.m. Raining hard now at 6:30. Visited the Wertzs after dinner and returned through thick mist about 11 p.m. Mrs. W. enjoys fun and it was largely an evening of kidding. I don't know what the God of the other missionaries would have thought of it. Finished field work for this short term camp by collecting a few things already noted near camp. The local Castanopsis (which may be small-fruited C. junghuhnii) etc. Most interesting was a very tall Gulubia scattered on the grasslands as a forest relic trunk swollen about the middle like a species I collected above our 1200 m. camp in Dutch New Guinea in 1938 and still un- determined. Two days ago in a gully strip of relic forest I saw a tall Areca of the densely spicate kind which local natives said "jumped up nothing," meaning it was not planted there. I have seen bunches of the same species of betel-nut carried by men in this locality. Van has nine species of mammals for the same camp including a small mousey looking phascogale new to the collection. Good specimens of the strange rat were trapped last night. Saturday, August 29. High dense overcast at dawn and mountain tops cut off by the darl clouds gave promise of early rain at Gono. The tents were very wet and we had to roll them on wet, clayey ground. Got away at 8:20. Little Ruth Wertz watched us packing and saw us off. Arrived at our new campsite on the NE slopes of Mt. Michael at 10:35. The camp has yet to be given a name. Road distance from Gono 18 miles. Altitude by aneroid today 6700 feet. Corrected altitude probably about 6500 ft. Road generally in good condition after the rain except in the neighborhood of Lufa where the clayey surface had not been well stoned. Our relatively heavy vehicle cracked or broke a lot of the round-timber decking of bridges on