Rus and Lionel went jacking last night but were driven early by the wind. One Rettus ruber in traps. Monday Oct. 22: Rain again before dawn. At 5:30 a great black cloud lay over the sea to the NE. Light rain through much of the morning. Thunder with this. Botanized eastwards along the flat sandy island on which Jinju is situated, then across a mangrove flat on a bridge mainly of sawn baulks of timber to garden lands on Mabu Creek (this seems to be the big creek which heads near our mountain camp). From the gardens - bananas, taro, coconuts mainly) I went up the slopes into primary forest. Some fine tall trees, which have been cut into somewhat by the Osbornes and the Mission. Little in flower or fruit in the forest, but I collected a fine big canopy tree which seems to be a Turreea. In conversation with the owner of the garden, I found that he had worked for Burns Phil at Madang for a year as engine boy. His brother, who lived with him and owned neighboring land planted to coconuts, had worked four years as a houseboy in a Madang hotel. Other boys of the area have worked in Rabaul, Lae and Port Moresby. This man had a good house for which he had paid the builder 26 pounds. Nearby was a small house in which the second of his babies had been born. Such a house is not used after the birth of the child. Was questioned as to what we did with our specimens. I described the Museum as something like a big school to which all people could come to see things from all over the world. In reply to my statement that in some parts we were thought to be practicing black magic, I was told that some people do not know God". Nothing in traps except five Macroglossus caught in a net and several bats shot by Lionel and Rus (Pteropus conspicillatus, Dobsonia, Nyctimene). Tubuga and Sipoma were sent across to Abaleti for some onions from our stock there. Left at 7:15 and returned at six in the evening. A remarkably fast trip. The journey is supposed to take about five hours each way. Ron Osborne here this evening on a trading trip. He bought a couple of bags of copraand some trochus shell, and sold a considerable quantity of manufactured goods. The excitement of our presence has decreased the rather high output of copra by this community. At least we have spent about 20 pounds here. Started buying artifacts for the Museum. Have three kinds of shell moneyand a limestone so far. Native food is coming in well. We will try to lay in a stockto take to Woodlark, where population is only a few hundreds and garden produce is likely to be scarce. Since about the middle of last week there have been big doings at the Mission. Monsignor Doyle, head of this mission, has been here for confirmations. About 120 people have been put through. (Since the mission started something over 600 have been baptized on the island; about half the population). The Monsignore, with Fathers Twomey and Earle, left about 6 this morning for Nimoa in the"St. Patrick". Tuesday Oct. 23: Rain much of the time from about 8:30 to 10 this am, spoiling my field work. Weather from the NE, over the sea. Went through the mission and over the coastal slopes. Very tall, gloomy forest in which there were a few fallen flowers on the ground, and parrots feeding out of sight overhead, but I could collect very little through inability to see, Another Pteropus and a cuscus shot by Rus and Lionel; three Macroglossus in the net, two R. ruber trapped by a hospital boy at the mx mission. Nothing in our traps. I find that only the regular museum bait is being used. Had Brother Grantwell to dinner. Plain bushman from Dalby, Queensland. Worked on farms, then as undertaker. Has two brothers in the Church lay breathren and another brother about to be ordained as a priest.