-92- Have collected 288 numbers of plants at this camp. This makes what I con-sider a satisfactory total of 1508 numbers for the mountain. The mammal collection of 49 specimens was disappointing in numbers though remarkable for variety for such small proceeds from trapping, tree-felling and shooting, with at least 17 species. Pteropus (over 5 ft. wingspread) Dobsonia, Macrogllossus ?, Hipposideros, Miniopterus, a bandicoot, Satanellus, Phalanger, Rattus Leucopus, Uromys, Pogonomys (2) Leptomys, Pogonomelomys, Melomys ?, a strange mouse, an unidentified giant rat (Hyomys?). Total number of mammal species of the mountain: The open rocky beds of small creeks were good catching places for a few species of butterflies, dragonflies, and damsel flies. Light trapping was only moderately productive. Many frogs in good variety were caught in streams and in the forest. Only [illegible] one snake was captured and a few skinks. Collections: 3600 insects and spiders, 22 other invertebrates, 241 reptiles and amphibians, 3 eels. BINIGUNI CAMP. GWARIU RIVER. Monday, July 27, 1953: Four carriers with tents and flys, and 3 Gosiagos left #3 Camp about 7:30. Other carriers from Awani and Maneau villages, and a few from Biniguni, Budmag and Opaigwai began struggling in soon after breakfast and at 8:50 we evacuated camp with 41 loads. Councillors from Biniguni, Maneau and Budmag with our party. Betel-nut palms, breadfruit and Okari trees marked the sites of former villages of Umaiau at about 600 m. and Bud-Dawa at 500 m. Track did not seem nearly as steep as when we walked up it 10 weeks ago. Carriers made good time and we reached the Ginum River at foot of the escarpment at 9:45 (alt. 180 m.). Bouldery bed of the Ginum quite dry except for a small pool at the foot of a long cascade where the trail reached the river. Rested 20 minutes in the shade of tall forest of the north bank. Reached the new camp on the Gwariu River about 11 o'clock. Tomi limped down the mountain trail and was carried from the Ginum to camp. Ken had all tents and flys rigged by the time we arrived and a group of native women were on the point of loading a stone oven with sweet potatoes, taro and green taro leaves to feed the carriers and our boys. Chosen by Ken, the site of the Gwariu Camp does not look favorable for our work. The best that can be said of it is that it is on clean, level sandy and stony ground. But that ground has been deposited by its river in recent year and is not safe from high floods. This is the dry season and floods are unlikely to occur, but with a rise of about 15 feet the water would flow over the camp ground, and the Gwariu is a very fast stream now 60-80 ft. wide in its normal bouldery channel. The river flows along the very foot of the escarpment. Opposite camp is an eroding bank up to about 40 ft. high (many water-worn boulders embedded) and above it native gardens and mostly second growth rain forest. Back of camp, toward Biniguni village, there is some tall primary forest, but it is a poor development, largely of Casuarina on ground so very bouldery that it has no attraction for native cultivators. Will try to find a better camp site in the general neighborhood. First aneroid readings make the camp about 200 m. above sea level. The climate seems hot after the mountain. Our skin has been more or less bleached by five weeks of wet weather and forest shade and there will be some sunburn. Had this evening my first bathe in open water for a long time; temperature a brading 68 F.