-122- fall on Wala Wala Creek. This creek junctions with the Waoloya just below camp. Camp at 800-830 m.; two flies for natives, a tent for us; ground limited. Hard travel most of the way. Ground rocky; steep climbs; steep and in places dangerous side slopes; poor footing on a very narrow track often almost hidden in waist-high grass. Reached Garuwata Village 9:45, left at 11:00 after a meal of rice for the carriers and a snack for ourselves. Reached the waterfall camp at 11:50. Van fairly well recovered from his illness, but weak, and muscles cramped. Cramps in my legs too on last part of track. Carriers traveled well, the men carrying 8 boxes as double loads when we started, but after a time several of the poles were thrown away and the boxes manhandled as single loads with the men alternating. Women carried drums of rice, etc. on their heads. On one precipitous side slope a woman slipped and her drum of kerosene came to rest badly battered and leaking a couple of hundred feet below. South slopes of Garuwata Valley mostly grassy with strips of brushy second growth rain forest in dry gullies. The even more precipitous north slopes mostly covered with primary forest. Water- fall Camp in second growths; tano gardens nearby. Tall treeferns (= species on lower slopes of Mt. Dayman ?) conspicuous in the young forest. Some fairly level grassy benches and hollows close above Garu- wata Village. Village of perhaps 20 small houses shaded by tall cocoanut and betel-nut palms and old mango trees. Very rocky ground. Stone platforms and monoliths as at Wakonai and Beli Beli. Crops largely taro; some yams. Only one pig seen in village - a fine big fat well-bred Berkshire, no doubt stolen from Nuatutu Plantation on the coast. The people of this side of Goodenough lost all their pigs when evacuated during the war and are without money to buy new stock. Even at Galuwati there are houses of rusty corrugated iron salvaged from old military camps. Saw used as food bowls hubcaps from an airplane end an automobile. Headmen accompanying us have walking sticks made of aluminum tubing. Insulated electric wire isused for tying house timbers. Wednesday, October 7, 1953: To Camp on Goodenough established at 1570-1590 m. by aneroid, on the eastern slopes of the central range and not far from the summit. According to the 1-mile map the summit above us is 5900 ft. (about 1800 m.). The leading carriers did the climb in less than 3 hours. Leaving the Waterfall Camp at 6:20, and examining the slopes for a middle level camp site and taking bearings on known points, I arrived at 10:15.