Rom says the young men will carry is the weather is fine. The guide, however, will have to bt tge councillor from the inland village, who alone seems to know the way to the top of Riu. Sunday August 19: A lot of strong SE wind during last night. Fine this AM until about 10 O'clock, when drizzles began, clearing late in the afternoon. Lionel unable to get away again today. This is contributions Sunday for the Methodist MissionNative adherents have gond to give money and garden truck to the Tongan head teacher, or whatever he is called, who lives at Rambuso and yesterday went to a village west a few miles along the coast to do the collection. Worked inland up the track to a distance approaching two miles from the sea and slti- tude estimated at 150 meters. I omitted to record that a week ago today, "Drunken Sunday" in Bwagnole, when the young government officers left for Samarai with 2 dozen beer and 11 bottles of rum for the two days voyage, Fitzter threw our aneroid into the salt water at the wharf. I still don't know how Fitzter came to have the instrument. No native wpu ld dive for it. So Lionel went down in 5-6 fathoms and brought it up. The aneroid is now on the way to Australia for reconditioning. A good day for mammals. Nothing in traps. Two or three Nyctimene shot by Lionel last night; a big Pteropus by Rus. The spare boys, out this morning some distance in the primary forest (?) got a very different looking adult Pogonomys and a half-grown young one. Body short, tail long, and heavy, feet very big. Must be a new species. This even- ing Lionel shot a russet Miniopterus new to the collection, unless it is a color phase. This makes 5 species for the cam to date. Not bad for an area largely deforested. Learned this morning of old gold mining tunnels in the lower mountains, made by Tom Morley before the last war. Rus went up to the inland village this afternoon to arrange for an excursion to the tunnels Tuesday. Two inland villages seen by me this AM. Visited only one, Erinamoa, where the Councillor lives, c. 1½ miles inland and at about 400 ft. Clean place od 15 mostly big houses. Botanized mostly in relic strips pf primary rain forest left in the gullies. App- rently a strong endemic elementm also a considerabke number of species which I also collected on Misima (white-flowered Proteaceae, Symploccos, Nepenthes mirabilis (without mousey odor). Found on the grasslands a Velleia (Goodenoviaceae) a genus I have only once collected hitherto in the new Guinon - west of the Fly River. Picked up the fruit of a winged dipterocarp which I could not otherwise discover. Different from the tree of the Misima mountains (fruit much smaller). Monday August 20: A scud of rain at dawn (5:45); others through the morning. No drizzle in afternoon; rus had his mammal trays on an outside drying rack. Lionel at last has left for the mountains. Got away at 7:15 with 3 carriers, a spares to our track, and the councillor as guide. Probably he will strike wet weather above about 1500 feet. The SE continues, piling clouds on the mountains. A backlog of plants which I did not have time to prepare yesterday, kept me in camp until nearly 8 O'clock. Then went along the coast, west, for rather better than 2 miles. Collected 17 numbers; some of them still on hand, as I have run out of driers. This seldom happens. Have averaged 16 numbers a day for the camp. Not bad for an area largely de- forested and occupied by migrant grasses and associated herbs few in number. An unexpexed fins was an Antidesma (probably A. ghaesedebmila) which I can's remember seeing this shade of the Port Moresby Grasslands (it grew on the grassy edges of the mangroves). Nothing in traps last night, although one or two new lines were in operation. Last night Rus jackeda a Dobsonia and a small Pteropus. Six Nyctimene were caught in a net