Later I took my run up the mountain to Inspiration Point. Also had the pleasure of mailing to Bill Snow a little decoration to hang in a place which he knows of. Spent the evening again in reading and watching the few honeymoon couples dancing to the tune of a dilapidated pianola in the living room. It was this time again Almayer's Folly. Before bed time Hannibal came up from Sydney on the bus in company with an Amer- ican named Colgate who is on his around the world with an agent of the Colgate Soap Company. It was nice to see Hannibal again. He brought me a letter and a cable from Mother, which constituted the first communications which have reached me as yet from home. Colgate, who seems to be none too intelligent a chap, has already visited Hawaii, Philippines, Java, Sumatra, Japan, China, and the Malay States, and is off for New Zealand in a week to continue his trip. He is very fond of caramels and has managed to eat up all the ones that I bought from the Kiosk for me. Sunday, August 28th. (Jenolan Caves). It was a day of rain from breakfast time to bed time. Managed to get some more work done in the morning before it was time for dinner and the cave inspection. This afternoon Hannibal, Colgate, and I visited the Lucas Cave under the conduction of the fine Scotch guide, who was so amusing in yesterday's trip. The Lucas Cave is the most vast of all the Jenolan Caves and contains the mightiest chambers of them all. Of the twenty-five miles of caves which the Jenolan system contains the