-109- in places. We appear to be camped on a spring line parallel with the mountains. No rock outcropping anywhere in the locality. The nearest approach a pale reddish compacted clayey loam exposed under the alluvium in the creek banks. David and Tomi to Baiawa to ask the Village Councillor to send canoes and men up Moi Biri Creek to meet Ken tomorrow. They will remain at Baiawa until we arrive there Monday next. Thursday, September 3, 1953: Max. 28, Min. 21 deg. C. Clear day after about 9 A.M. In the normal dry season weather we have had the past few days, low clouds drifting from the SE are a regular thing from about dawn to some hours later in the morning. Followed Geoff's Rakua trail for 1-1½ miles. Much Calamus entangling the forest for 1/2 mile or so, then a few hundred yards of young secondary rain forest fringing a deep creek. Small water- holes in gravelly bed of creek, and an old village site, recent enough to be still partly open and grassy, about 100 yds. upstream from the trail crossing, on west bank. Crotons, Caesalpìnia pul- cherrima, betel-nut and coconuts in old village clearing. More regrowths off west bank, then primary forest on slightly ridgy ground. This forest full of pig rootings. Scared up a giant bandi- coot which showed an amazing turn of speed as it dashed off through the undergrowth. Poor bag of plants. Ken left for Baiawa at 8 A.M. with seven carrier-loads (half specimens). Have been economizing on smokes lately. A replenishment supply of cut tobacco for cigarettes, invoiced as having been sent parcel post from Samarai June 23, has not arrived. This morning I had only a few shreds of tobacco left, Geoff half a tin, and we both started to smoke trade twis$. Smoked two cigarettes of this powerful stuff, and decided I did not need tobacco that badly. After 6 hours I was getting along alright when I happened across an overlooked can of fine cut in my collecting. Geoff refused to take more than a pinch of it, so now I am smoking again - for a couple of days. We have a few packets of American cigarettes in reserve at Baiawa. Awani people inform me that the former village NW of camp was called Dudud. Opaigwari people, now "old", had gardens there and built houses. Should say the site has not been abandoned more than five years. Friday, September 4, 1953: Max. 29.5, Min. 18 deg. C. Clear rosy dawn; mostly overcast after 9:30. Cloud drift from NW at dawn (5:45), then SW; most of day SE. Starry night as is pretty general here. Day spent in camp making photos and attending to collections including cuttings and palm seeds for the Fairchild Tropical Garden and some things gathered up the right-hand branch by my boys this morning. Am pickling plants which cannot be dried out in the time remaining to us in this camp.