-97- In mid-afternoon a policeman arrived from Baniara with a small mail and the news that Peter O'Sullivan expects to start during the week (Monday or Wednesday!) on a patrol to this area. This was jackpot day for Van. Around 200 specimens added to his collections. Ken brought a big lot of Hipposideros bats from a cave in the limestone near Maneau. Not long after his arrival in camp some Maneau men came with many Hipposideros of another species caught in a different cave. To top it all, some local urchins came in late in the afternoon with a splendid series of Pogonomys which they had taken from a hollow tree, plus a score or more of a small bat still to be placed to genus. Ken saw entrances to two caves at Maneau, both small holes near ground level. The local natives went in alone for the bats. They also captured an eel from a cave stream. The story is that lot of superstition is attached to the caves and the locals object to other people going into them. The caves contain a potent "pig medicine" which the Maneau people sell to hunders of the Maicine tribe for good money, or kind.