June 7, 1935 We got away shortly after seven and with 12 carriers and descended to the Walope in a little over 1/4th. The carriers were traveling slowly & stopped halfway down. The trail was through grassland mostly though there was some forest in the gullies. The river was crossed by by two hot logs about 15 cm. in diam. I waited for Adamson who was riding this far. It was a good trip behind the trail from this not finished for a ways. We we had to follow the water or and went straight up so that one had to cling with one eye closed but it did not bother very much the carriers though. Rand with his double loads will be at least difficult. After about 20 min we gained a undulating plateau which we soon left to dive again to the mission road which except for short gaps took us into Urana. There were several boys. When we arrived we found all the Urana carriers waiting for pay. And when Adamson called the interpreters 45 Waitakapoi goat shepherds came up to carry to Pareida after pay off & getting the names of the carriers which was quite noisy then we bought some Kaima from the women and the noise & confusion was even greater. After it was over we had quite a pile but only enough for one fed faith porters, about four more arrived from with parcels that I had cleared out. After a lot of shouting we got them back. Later 12 clear and when we went to bid only 30 odd remained. June 8, 1935 I got up at 4:30 & started shortly after 5:00 and came that all had bolted but we found 12 so it was then of course absurd that to go to the top with locals was out of the question so I wrote Rand to come with the Hewias and we started to establish a base camp at 6.55. I started in the lead following one of the carriers who knew the road. We tore off at top speed running down hill clearing up. I stopped him at the first village (15 min) as we were already far ahead. When Adamson arrived he told me to let them go as fast as they wanted to so witter off the trail was