26 had gone to make sego, we were met half way by Mr Brass with the mules he had mustered them himself so we returned and loaded them up. We got into camp about at 12:30, and the rest of the day I spent about camp. April 3, 1955 First start camp while Mr adamsen worked the mules mammals was frightfully mothers April 4, 1733 Set out 24 hot traps and cleaned 9 casts of rats that were caught in. My opinion it looked to be the same as yesterday. In the evening I went out down the trail as far as where it crosses the swamp on my way out I saw nothing except a large spider on which I wasted four shots. It was running up and down a pine and his legs short very large. On my way to back down most of the way through that lowland forest when the trail was quite narrow and closed in on each side I noticed a small bird would fly just to the edge of the woods and come back to one another. I approached the edge his flight became shorter & shorter until finally he dashed fast an about 30 meters from the edge of the forest. And sitting on the top of a sycampte tree that on owl, it too in to forest by the creek below camp I missed a large bird that flew up, evidently a stump bradley, trail and at the near edge of the forest. I shot a Piro Mouth. April 5, 1955 I caught an extra in the savanly forest sd no 10 a "red rat" probably Melongs. We succeeded in getting some twenty men & women to sell carry some of our gear that would not load well on mules we had to pay them sticks of tobacco and a few of rice. The women carried the heaviest loads. About fifty Middleton's porters upon to arrive and their arrival about 6pm we had a bit of a scare when one of the porters reported that one was fatally, and had died but it appeared was