to a widely scattered caravanserie of carriers, arrived in camp shortly after two o'clock. He is a proptotype of Lon Chaney as the sergeant in "Tell It to the Marines". He has served in the 9th American Walvalry, as sergeant major in a Highland regiment, as warrant officer in the. Rabaul police, as an automonile salesman in London, and although born in England, is a resident of Detroit, U.S.A. For a person who has had the unwelcome strokes of fortune he has had, his disposition is as remarkable as his part- er's. He is full of the restlessness and nervous ener- gy of an adventurer and as a philosopher, in spite of a sort of cheerful badinage, is an ironist. It was the intention of Pat Fordyce and him to slice through Bougainville from Buin to the Pukka end, pene- trating the unknown country near Bagana. They were con- vinced they could get enough recruits to send them down to Sydney for quite a luxurious holiday. When Bordyce passed through our camp he had three recruits with him, and Kemp, with the boys he has picked up, boosts the aggregate to eleven. Financially, there- fore, their adventure has set them back very heavily. Yet, as Kemp sat down on a cracker tin and confronted his first plate of tin meat in a good many days he kept repeating, "But there are boys in that country, by Jesus! Some day I will get them!". The country around Bagana, one of the two active volcanoes, has never been entered by recruiters. Years ago a patrol officer went through the outskirts of it