Monday Aug 27 Some showers in morning and a slight one in at nightfall. Peak of Riu with a driving and mist all day. A Riu (Rattlesnake). Left camp with my two boys at 7:20 & returned at 4:10 - nearly nine hours without food or water, A difficult mountain for its altitude. It is so steep to the south that climbing from there would be out of the question. A spur from the west offers what looks like a good approach from HINAI Bay. The ridge to the SSE O(continuation of the backbone range) appears to be very narrow and up & down. I caught only partial glimpses of it, Had doubts about the weather when I left camp At 9 o'clock, when I was near the 2000 ft. level, rain began and for 30 minutes we sheltered under a packcloth carried for the purpose. Decided to turn back, and started to collect. At 10:10 At 10:10 the weather looked like taking up, so we resumed the ascent - it is too gradual most of the way to be called a climb. Reached Lionel's Lookout at 10:15( no view at all from there on way but fine panorama of HANAI Bay (?) on way down in the afternoon, My far point of the 25th (about 2200 ft,) reached at 10:30. From here traveled slowly, searching the stunted forest fro Nothofagus, which I could not find and reached the summit (2654 ft.? Have m, map in camp) at 11:00 o'clock. Only a few really pinches. Tak- ing ones time , the ascent could be made in about 1 hour and 30 or 40 minutes from camp, excluding stops, On the way up Dacrydium first appeared at 8:30 (c, 1500 ft.) & reached Lionel's Lookout (c, 2000 ft.) Low, smooth -stemmed caps formed a small strip of ferns the narrow, very clayey spur crest at about 1600 ft. & were not seen elsewhere. A patch of giant Gleichenia fern in a small saddle under Lionel's Lookout perhaps indi- cates Eichorn's camp site of 1915 or thereabouts. Between my lookout of the 25th & the summit the forest is low, more or less windclipped scrub 15 - 20 feet high, fairly heavily scarred.(?) Two slender tree-ferns (Cyathea) collected there. A pale feather-leaved palm recalling those of the mountains of Normanby & Fergusson, is scattered through the scrub and conspicuous when one looks over the scrub, but was not in collectible condition. On the summit the scrub apparently was low enough to be called shrubbery, but it had been completely wrecked by Lionel and his boys yesterday. A circulat fairly levek bit of ground about 30 feet across on top. From the appearance of the wreckage the summit scrub was composed largely of a red-flowered Metrosideros & two Lauraceae (one with anise-scented bark). These spp are very plentiful down to my lookout(also a Coleophyllum, which was on top, too.) The white Rhododendron had been on top(collected some old capsules which I will examine for seeds when dry) A rich heavy On the trees. Next abundant bryophyte was a fuzzy green hepatic (#27391) on the tree trunks. Bases of the stunted trees tented with moss-covered roots. Not much moss on the ground. Mountain summit probably under cloud most of the year, Nothing in traps. Two Pogonomys, gray rather than brown in color and with black tails instead of brown, cut upon a tree by the mammal boys. Tuesday Aug. 28: Rain began about 12:30 lazy night and did not clear off until about Midday. Sunny afternoon. Spent most of the day preparing yesterday's gathering of 39 numbers of plants. Last night, when the lamp was being carried from my tent (where we have our rum and water) to the preparation fly, where we eat, a great atlas moth fluttered to it and was slapped to the ground & caught by Lionel. An almost perfect specimen with wings 11 in. in length. Photographed today. Out jacking for about three hours last night. Lionel shot a Phalanger, a Pte- taupus and a yellow-caped Pteropus.Tinker got probably the same species of Pteropus, but its cape was much darker and there was arregular white-blotched coloration be- low the cape. Nothing in traps on the two bat nets rigged . Since Sunday Lionel has had a cold or mild flue. Now Rus has it. Esulala has malaria, brought on by the rain, no doubt. Since a bad attack in the mountains of Fergusson two months ago, he is supposed to have been on a weekly preventive dosage of camograin.