camp at 7:00 P.M. I found that Dari had spent all the European food up so I had to content myself with a couple of Kivia and some tomatoes augmented by some dry bread that we had left; this was also warm tea but no sugar. June 12, 1933 During the night some animal ate a good bit of the bread so that there was not much in the way of food. Dari got the Matu Motons to stay with us after a futile attempt with the Kivia and as I could see no need to remain below I started up at 9:00, and after a steady pull up arrived on top of 1:00 to find the Kiuma guide line I gotten 45 carriers to take us on. It was then necessary for one of us to go back down again to tell the Kivia to bring their swag out as I felt too tired to go Rand & Brass crew left the lot falling to Rand who left at 2:30 and the Kiuma had indeedly own few whites and they would us over looking inside our shirts feeling my feet when I took my boots off and watching every move. To have stopped them would have meant that they would have bolted. As darkness came on the left crossing to rally to a shelter under a rock. On the opposite bank to step climb up (500 meters or more) went little to thin as they went up at a good rate. June 13, 1933 We had rather a hectic start as the carriers rushed into camp and grabbed the best looking loads, one or two got two lighter too hungry loads. We got away at seven and discarded that crossed the Ero in crossing the Trilly suffered a severe bang. In 35 min we arrived at Middleton camp which has a better situation than ours being more sheltered. Then from there the trail went up and down crossing the Ero again where it had diminished to a small stream. Shortly after crossing the Ero we swung off to the Nor left leaving the main trail which went on across Pury Pass to Knuma. We went up a stiff fern dotted grass spur for about 10 min then turned through a stunted forest for a ways then down slightly and across marshy grass and then up a long ridge or devil. It was just after crossing the marshy grassland that I saw a large