-111- Good clear view of Mts. Dayman and Goropu from Kwagira, but the upper parts of the former cannot be seen from there. Could pick out an area of fire-killed Araucaria forest edging on grass- land to the NW of our Top Camp. Brown smoke rising from the sum- mits of two of the peaks of Goropu; the first proof we have of natives visiting the heights of this 12,000 ft. mountain. Wind southerly and Moi Biri Bay calm. Expecting rough water, we sent all but but two of our boys around the bay by road from Kwagira and they arrived a couple of hours before our five canoes. We had to wait 3 hours at the Moi Biri landing for the tide to rise enough to float the canoes which had come up the creek on the pre- vius tide. All our collections and other possessions at Biawa in good condition. Ken had rigged a fly over a high platform near the edge of the man- groves to accommodate our less valuable cargo until the arrival of the boat expected on the 9th or 10th. Dayman completely obscured by haze and cloud in the afternoon. Most of the grassland about Biawa has been burned and carried a green shoot a few inches to a foot high. Air very noticeably drier here than inland in the rain forest areas we have worked in for the past six weeks. Tuesday, September 8, 1953: Pleasant day, clear but for a haze which blotted out the mountains after early morning. Camp busy checking collections which have accumulated here and getting them ready for loading on the boat. All the village men out hunting wallabies. Place very quiet, even for a small village of 7 houses. But last night, and at intervals all through today, we had the crying of a peevish baby to listen to. The same child put on the same performance when we camped here back in May. In afternoon a policeman arrived from Baniara with a batch of American mail dated as late as August 25th. Extraordinarily fast time for letters from home. Wednesday, September 9, 1953: Hot hazy day with little breeze and that from NW late in afternoon. Mountains of main range obscured after early morning. The mountains on Cape Nelson have not been visible since our arrival. My packing done, I did some collecting in the brushy gully forests near camp and the taller rain forest up to about a mile east along the Medino trail. The brushy forests are perhaps secondary and many of the small trees composing them are deciduous - some flowering and in fruit. The taller rain forest is evergreen and I found nothing there in flower or fruit. A clearing of about an acre in the tall forest may have been the site of an American observation post said to have been somewhere in the neighborhood during the war.