124 Kainantu-Okapa-Purosa Forest was reentered at 16 miles from Kainantu but within the mile we came to its end on a grassy point at 7000 ft., from where we dropped into a largish grassy valley bottoming at about 6500 ft. At 23 miles a new loop road cutting off 3 miles of distance to Okapa brached to the left at 7000 ft. Following the new road, we greentered forest in about a mile and soon came to a rather recently established village community called Ofoena-Bamia at 7000 ft. Inspected this village; mission church in center of a collection of mean low huts; government resthouse fit for pigs; good forest all around. Much good forest to about Magi (Lutheran Mission native station) at 30 miles from Kainantu but saw no suitable place for a camp. Junction of the two Okapa roads 3 miles from Magi. About a mile from Okapa we picked up on the road European Medical Assistant ? Brannon. Arrived Okapa 12:25; 6650 ft.; 36 miles from Kainantu. Lunched at the EMA's house, where Dr. Andrew Gray, Administration medical officer in charge of kuru research, was staying pending the completion of a house abuilding nearby. Gray a herring-gutted little man with close cropped moustache and clipped "English" accent, though an Australian and a graduate of Adelaide University. He favors the genetical approach in study of the disease (which Zigas says will require 10 years to prove or disprove). On the road out from Kainantu we had met a professor of geography of the National University of Canberra, driving back from a visit to Okapa in some connection with kuru, accompanied by an attractive woman student who is working for her doctorate on a land use survey in the Goroka area. Continuing after lunch on a road which goes ca. SW 18 miles to Purosa, we met another Land Rover with a Dr. Orez and a male medical student aboard, also on kuru research. Much effort and money is going into kuru research. Some money comes from the U.S. National Institute of Health, and this seems to be administered by Gajdusek. The Adelaide team would appear to be working on Australian money. The extent to which the two teams cooperate is not plain to me. For example, Gray knew nothing about the expected arrival of Maa; Zigas is making the arrange- ments for Maa, who will camp in Moifa resthouse some few miles towards Kainantu from Okapa. We left Okapa at 1:10 p.m. and reached the end of the road ar Purosa about 2:30. Entered forest 13 miles from Okapa, 6700 ft. and examined a possible camp site about 2 miles farther on. In another two miles or less (our speedo does not record fractions of miles) the forest ended at a newly established medical aid post. Beyond that a little was a mission of some kind, run by an American we are told, with unimpressive thatched living quarters and a fine big oval or circular, opensided church with high pointed roof reminding one of a chief's house in parts of West Africa. The missionary evidently a bit quaint; can't learn anything else about him from white who have mentioned him. A most unattractive government resthouse on grassland at the head of an open valley just beyond the mission. Turned back and inspected the medical aid post, which Gray had offered to us for a base camp. A neat and orderly establishment, but accomodations very limited. So we drove back to the possible camp site in the bush. Arrived there 3:15 and were under cover with two flys and my tent up before nightfall. There was mist in the tall forest of the camp area from ca. 2 o'clock on, but fortunately no rain. Some steep grades on the road; the Land Rover in low-low and with little to spare several times. Altitude at Purosa Camp 6550 ft. uncorrected.