-101- guni, and arrived here 10:15. Our new camp is on a point of ground at the conference of ____________ Creek with the Peria. Altitude about 50 m. The creek names we have from the natives are not to be found on the 1-mile map of 1944. I think the Peria is the Ailok of the map, and the _______________ the Ginum. If this is so the government track, which we followed from Biniguni, should be more than a mile to the north of the crossings shown on the map. Many of our 70 carriers today asked for money instead of trade tobacco in payment. Some few wanted kerosene. Payment for the trip was 4 sticks of tobacco or three shillings. Carriers were from Bini- guni, Budmag and Opaigwari villages. About dark the Opaigwari coun- cillor turned up with 8 women with string bags loaded with taro, sweet potatoes, pumpkins, bananas and greens. These friendly foothill people have done a great deal to help us; first in carrying on the mountain, latterly in providing fresh food for ourselves and boys. Late in the afternoon a policeman arrived from Baniara with mails, including letters posted in New York as late as July 29. Also a note from Peter O'Sullivan saying he expected to arrive at Wapona tonight and Biniguni tomorrow. Sky overcast all day. No rain. Saturday, August 15, 1953: Another rainless day, about 50% overcast. All hands busy rigging camp, making work tables, storage pata-patas, digging latrines, etc. Everything shipshape and comfortable this even- ing. About mid-afternoon Father Rogers of the Anglican Mission arrived from the coast and stopped to drink tea with us on his way to a mission outpost between Opaigwari and Budmag. Pleasant fellow who seems to take a realistic view of the native. Had 14 boys and girls carrying his be- longings. Young kids up to perhaps 12 years of age, plus 2 Budmag men. Rogers the first white man we have seen since early May; pumpkin tips from Opaigwari the first green vegetables in that time. Refreshing experiences, both. Besides pumpkin tips we have taro tops and the 5-lobed leaves of a species of Hibiscus as greens. Sleeping lightly in a strange camp last night, the variety of noises I heard was amazing. Leaves from a deciduous tree landing gently on the fly stretched over my tent; many different insect and frog sounds; the fluttering of small bats; boys stirring in their camp across the creek, several cracks and dull crashes of dead limbs fall- ing; the quarreling of fruit-bats high in a tree, Geoff snoring and figeting in the next tent; and about daylight a loud, repeated half- roar, half boom which must have been made by a cassowary, but it was a sound new to me. Sunday, August 16, 1953: Overcast all day and enough rain in the morn- ing to interfere with fieldwork. Collected down the creek for about 3/4 mile. At camp the stream has stable banks and at this season only pools of clear water. About 1/4 mile down its character changes. The