114 Gono-Kimi Creek the way out, and the damage had not been mended. The natives are required to maintain the road, doing the necessary work one day a week. In this area the roadwork day is Saturday, but we saw no work being done. The patrol officer in charge is away down in the beach country, of course. Mist during the first part of the journey prevented my getting a good view of the forest. However, beech trees definitely appeared at 5346 miles (speedo at Gono 5338) and their appearance is so striking that I could scarcely have missed them in the mist. There was no mist where the beech trees began. I got the impression that the climate there was drier or less misty than at Gono. The beech forest appeared on the Lufa side of the high point on the road. It continued above the road to Lufa and apparently all the way to our present camp site. Conditions around here are definitely drier than at Gono. There had been recent rain all the way, but very little on the secondary grasslands between the new camp and Lufa. I think this camp will be much less rainy than Gono. Most of the considerable job of establishing a bush camp has been completed. Work fly and boy's fly, sleeping tent for Van and John, working and sleeping tent for me, kitchen, two latrines and a bathhouse. Nine local men and small boys who came to gawk were put to work, and kept moving, by John and the kitchen lean-to and our very rustic smallhouse and house washwash are their work. They were a willing lot and seemed well satisfied with payment of a stick of tobacco and sheet of newspaper each. A stick of trade tobacco is worth one shilling or about 12 cents at trade price. Our present stock cost us nothing. We have a residue of two caddies (64 lbs.) which the Department of Forests gave us for Mt. Wilhelm. Government does not pay the high import duty which everyone else has to on tobacco and it costs them only about 6/- a pound. Sunday, August 30. So far my guess about the different weather pattern here has been right. This has been the sunniest day we have had for weeks but for the brief stay we had in Goroka. High broken clouds some of the day, but no rain. A small sprinkle about 11 last night. The wind comes over a gap in a spur ridge approximately east from camp. Deflected SE wind no doubt. While my boys were fixing work benches in my tent I did some insect hunting, accompanied by a horde of small boys and youths. Most of my following wore at least a score of pigtails, the smaller the boy's the longer the tails, and all stank strongly of stale pig grease which they rub on their bodies. They carried bows and arrows and went in hot pursuit of any small bird that showed itself. Too much wind for good insect collecting, but I caught 10 species of butterflies and three of damselflies. Late in the day we were visited by Missionary Harold Sellars of Faith Mission, who is establishing a new station at Havakeveta (not sure of the spelling) near Lufa, and Cleon Laughlin, whose station of the same mission is between here and Lufa. About half a dozen fair-haired children, too. Sellars told me that the various missionaries of their organization have a good deal of independence. His special interest is in making the natives literate in their own language. He is concentrating on the young men of about 18-26, who have more feeling of responsibility and are more eager to learn than the small boys. Also feels that the people must be given opportunity to improve themselves economically and is trying to find some specialty crop which they could grow for sale. Coffee may be