-71- was generous enough, however, to do for 5 weeks, with the exception of basic supplies such as rice, meat, sugar and a few odds and ends which should arrive within a few days. An item miscalculated was matches. We will have enough with care and economy. Today in camp we are lighting our hand rolled cigarettes at the cook's fire. Since Geoff ran out of his Chesterfields and I my Herbert Tareytons early on the trip, and he began rolling State Express Ready Rubbed and I Champion Fine Cut, smoking early morning noises have very noticeably diminished. The boys, on black trade twist rolled in newspaper, do not cough. Tuesday, June 2, 1953: Max 19.5°, Min. 4.5°C. Clear until about 1 o'clock, then mist off and on through afternoon. Hot sun brought on a lazy feeling after several raw days. Botanized a little way up the Gwariu Valley at about the 2280- 2300 m. level. Mostly forest trees, including an Ilex, a Schizomeria, Rhodammia, of the canopy layer, and a curious small-leaved euphorb of forest edges (Croton?) Geoff got today his second specimen of a very small red crustacean about 1/2 inch long, which lives in moss in the forest. Had a native visitor in camp, a brother of Diwowon, from Bonenau. Wearing a cloth breech clout and broad bark belt, a striped lava lava turbaned on his head and carrying an axe with long handle of black palm wood. Light complexioned man, active, and of good physique. Member of a hunting party camped 2 weeks on the mountain, somewhere on the west side of the Gwariu River. They hunt with dogs: wallaby, tree- climbing kangaroo (6 for the trip), and yesterday two big echidnas. Build benches of bark and light small fires under them to smoke cure the meat. Van asked the man to bring him tree-climbing kangaroos and echidnas, neither of which has been taken by our party. Wednesday, June 3, 1953: Max 21.5°, Min, 4.5° C. Light frost on grass. Clear morning until about 11 o'clock. Then mist. Drizzling rain 12:30 to 5; clear but raw tonight. Botanized in the beech forests down the Biniguni trail to an altitude of 2050 m. Mist down there earlier than at camp. Visibility poor in the tall forest. Cound recognize the beeches only by their large size, and bark characters. Found under them the fallen flowers of 2 spp. of Rhododendron (carnation-scented white, and a pink) which grow as epiphytes, but could not see the plants on the trees. About 9 o'clock I heard the yells of natives some distance off the trail in the ravine of the Atairo stream, and thought it must be ahunting party. At noon, when [illegible] back to camp on the way back to camp, we met six Biniguni natives in the beech forest, returning home after delivering loads of foodstuffs at our camp. Back in camp I found a long letter from Ken which had been opened and read by Geoff and Van, but not acknowledged. So in Biniguni tonight Ken will not know whether the stores he sent up were delivered or stolen. Happenings like that give one a lonely feeling. With the supplies were a few sweet potatoes and yams, and a sack of betel nut and pepper roots for the boys. The leaves and bark of the stem and roots of a pepper (Piper) are chewed with the betel-nut.