Nothing in traps last night. See note above on jacking. Results in mammals so far are poorer than at any other camp. Opportunities are not being fully exploited. Social doings in connection with "Yelangili", which we have felt obliged to join have interfered two nights with bat shooting and jacking. But more traps could be put out, and no bat net has been rigged yet. We have been here six clear days for, I think, four mammal specimens. Lionel left about 6 this evening with Hugh Osborne on the launch "Weimei" for Jinju and Mt. Rossel. Hugh is on a regular trading trip. Jinju is about three hours from here. Lionel after an examination of Mt. Rossel for a camp site , will probably walk back across the mountains to Abaleti. Wed. Oct. 3: Rain beginning about 6 am delayed my start into the field. Torrential downpour from about 11:30 to 1 o'clock Showers at intervals during the afternoon. Had a good morning - before being forced in by rain - on the ridge to the SE of camp. Collected in both primary and second growth forest. Several subcanopy trees, including two nutmegs, found in fruit in the former, and a nice little gregarious Selaginella (found also on Misima and Sudest, if not the other islands) on the ground. The second growths Alphitonia, Commersonia, a Macaranga and a [illegible] Glauchidion among expected small trees. Also there were a Cupenia ? and what looked like a small-fruited Acronychin. Gathered a few seeds of the big fan-palm, which, if I can get enough to make a shipment worth while (we are supposed to split with the PNG government), I will send to the Fairchild Tropical Garden. This is the only good palm I have seen on the trip with ripe fruits, Nothing in traps again. Four cuscus and a Nyctimene shot by the boys, Rus and his boy jacking on a trail not seen in daylight, got lost. Much shouting on the mountainside. No mammals shot or seen. Thursday October 4: Much rain in the form of heavy showers again today, fininf only in later afternoon. Abaleti floods too fast for a canoe to be Paddled against it. The rain, falling every day hampers field work. Hugh took their dinghy on his trading trip round the island, leaving us with what we can get in the shape of canoes for water transport. The only canoe in the area, apparently, to carry three people has a waterlogged outrigger and is dangerous to use. Isulele capsized in it last night. Then he failed to tie it up properly and it got adrift, to be picked up in damaged condition at the mouth of the creek. The transport situation is also ham- pering. On Sudest we found small black leeches rather troublesome in wet weather, at least at the mountain camp. They would appear to be absent from Rossel. Here, too, I have felt no scrub itch. I think it was on Sudest. Certainly it was at Mt. Sisa on Misima, Again nothing in traps. Nothing in a bat net set a night or two ago. One Nyctimene shot by Tinker, who also brought in a [illegible] pale brown Melomys? with white belly. This he said he had shot, but it carried the marks of a trap. Someone's trap line was robbed, Lionel returned from Mt. Rossel, walking across the island from Jinju and examining the mountain on the way. Had a bad time in the rain. A guide showed him Osborne(s) camp sinarrow ridge only a few hundred feet from the summit. Just about equivalent room for a camp of our size. On this side of the mountain, about 20 minutes from Osborne's site, and at lower elevation, a place was pointed out where two white men had camped, collecting butterflies. Obviously the camp of the Bichorns, who were here in the early twenties. This offers us an alternative camp site. Other sites are available below Osborne's on the Jinju side. Lionel reported leeches troublesome on the top. Conditions mossy there and timber small. Judge that ten days will be enough there. The scope appears limited.