-63- 9:20, 1900 m. All tall teech forest above the ferny opening; open underneath, little leaf litter, little moss. Phyllocladus a common subsidiary tree. 9:35, 1960 m. Carriers rest 10 m. on crest of spur in beech forest. A scaly-barked Dacrydium ? here. 10:15, 2020 m. Found Libocedrus in tall beech forest. Phyllocladus a common subsidiary tree. 10:25, 2050 m. First hoop pines (Amaucaria) on crest of spur and ca. 100 ft. high. Beech forest. Bark hut (Libocedrus and Araucaria bark). 10:30, 2060 m. Carriers rest 15 min. in fine tall beech forest on fair sized area nearly level ground. Great clean trees, mossy lower trunks and mossy and leaf strewn ground remind one of the Joyce Kilmer National Park. A filmy fern characteristic ground cover; Dawsonie also abundant. Low undergrowth of scrambling bamboo in parts where trees have fallen. Small brook. Good camp spot. 11:10, 2150 m. Edge of forest reached after a stiff climb. Bracken slopes rather than grassland. Grey stands of great fire-killed Araucarias. Sad sight. Intense sunshine. 11:45, 2310 m. Highest point on trail. Grass and bracken spur. Forest in hollow below. Maneau summit ca. 2 miles ahead. Scene recalls partly deforested highlands in East Africa. Fire grain. Grasslands at this altitude all secondary. Noon 2220 m. Reached Kem's Top Camp. Well situated in a grassy hollow beside a forest fringed stream. Some steep slopes today, but the carriers traveled well except for the usual tail-enders one expects in a line of 50 people. Camp half rigged by 5 o'clock. Carriers helped. Some of them sleeping in old huts of Araucaria and Libocedrus bark hidden in shelter of the forest. Cold in the grassy hollow. Temperature at 7:30 P.M. 41°F. Alt. at 6 P.M. 2240 m. Monday May 18, 1953: Temperature at 6 A.M. 43 F. Alt. 2230 m. Clear early morning. Broken mist clouds beginning 11 o'clock; drizzle and mist about 1-2 P.M. Boys re-rigged work fly and made pata-patas in it. Then building themselves a bark shelter in the forest. Prepared 46 plant numbers collected on way up (mainly mosses) and started collecting here. At 3 P.M. Van arrived with David and 7 Pumani men carrying a collecting box, his swag and foodstuffs. He left Biniguni at 11 A.M. yesterday and camped the night where Geoff and I spent our first night on the trail (700 m.). Van has 90 traps set hurriedly in the forest tonight. In his party arriving today was the Biniguni village policeman. Tuesday May 19, 1953: Clear cold morning; frost on grass in camp hollow; temp. 6 A.M. 30 F. Left camp 7:25 on ascent of Maneau Peak; with me Interpreter Diwowon (a Bonenau man) as guide, and my Gosiagos Bobi and Tömi. Reached summit 9:15.