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July 21, 1933
I slightly overslept consequently I did
not get away as early as I had hoped. The grass was
getting wet and I was soon soaked from the belt
down. The first two hours about was tiresome as I was
slipping rather badly as a number of trail were missing.
We did not stop till we got to the bush shelter where
I stopped to smoke and try and get the two Kiwis
change loads as my one with the heavy pack was
lagging a little. We did not stop again until we
got to the first grass clearing called Red clearing at least
the carriers didn't though I had to stop about an
hour to wait for its carrier. At the first clearing I
had the rice taken from its bag & put with
the blankets also they all some house that they
had carried along. We got into camp around 1pm.
The weather here was windy & slowly getting somewhat
cold.
July 22, 1933
The weather was the same as yesterday. I did not
go out but spent the morning cataloguing the negatives
developed of garinda in the afternoon I climbed
a hill along that means got off the ridges across the
valley.
July 23
It threatened but never did rain all day. I
set out all our rat traps and two snares. I started some
behind camp and set the first three by a tree fern & laurod
grassy. Next was just inside the forest edge, the rest
set in three of the glen for a 10 meters. The forest somewhat
mooy was low & thick that is although free from underbrush.
One must wind one way through & another thing one notices
in the difficulty of seeing into the tree tops, there's almost
for by the fact that one hears a bird above you but you
can not locate it. The afternoon passed in writing up notes.
July 24, 1933
I got one rat in the set just inside its woods and strength
setting traps went up the trail to the point where it descends
to cross the Cr. One gets a fine view from here
as one can follow the oak trees like writings.