-70- boys bathed in it. Back in camp at 3:50. Journey of 90 minutes without halt, more than an hour of it in heavy rain. Thoroughly wet, but thick woolen shorts kept us reasonably warm. Here and there in the forests wherever we went today there were occasional cut stubs of undergrowth. Natives from below the mountain no doubt make seasonal visits to collect the fruitheads of a large Pandanus which grows in the forests up here. The individual fruits contain a solitary big seed. The tree (and nuts) called Anai by the Daga people of Biniguni, Tangata by the Daga of Bonenau. Said to ripen about October. Pandans of this type are planted by the mountain natives of Central Papua and Dutch New Guinea to my knowledge, and probably elsewhere in the country. Sunday May 31, 1953: Max. 19°, Min. 8°C. Very heavy, sometimes squally rain began about 6 last evening and light rain was still falling at 10 P.M. Water ran through the bark cookhouse and across drainage ditches into the preparations fly. Ground very wet this morning but by afternoon most of the excess water had seeped away. Mist and occasional light rain throughout day. Had the boys build a protecting porch of bark on the weather end of preparations fly and deeper drains. Other boys getting in a good supply of firewood in preparation for more wet weather expected. no field work. Spent most of day preparing about 50 numbers of plants collected yesterday and still have many on hand. Only one drenched rat in traps last night. A splendid harvest of insects caught in light traps in the tents during the rain. All three of us busy with killing bottles picking moths from walls and roofs of the tents. First bat for the camp (a Miniopterus) shot in the mist by Van last night. Two nights ago the first phascogale (Antechinus) came from traps. Monday, June 1, 1953: Max. 19°, Min. 7.5°C. Third consecutive morning without frost. Clear early, soon misty. Short breaks in the mist throughout day and brief spells of sunshine in afternoon. Weather appears to be taking up. Poor day for field work, but Geoff caught his first butterfly for the camp, a small white, black and yellow species, found wet in the grass. Van getting his eye in on bats: two more Miniopterus this evening for three shots. A remaining dryer load of specimens collected two days ago kept me occupied most of the morning. Botanizing in the mist yielded 15 numbers, including 3 mosses - the smallest gathering I have had here in a day. It may not have been recorded in these notes, but after summing up possibilities for collecting on the mountain, I decided on 5 weeks for this camp, 3 for the 5300 ft. camp, and 2 for a camp lower down in the oak forests. Provisioning for this camp was for 4 weeks. It