April 30, Monday: Left Waikaiuna at 7:15 with 43 carriers and reckoned about 35 loads, including rice for carriers, but Lionel is not a precise organizer and fortunately, more carriers offered than were needed. Some carried light loads. Eight were from Sawataitai on the east side of the island.. LEBUDOWA River reached at 7:35 (about 1 mile). Crossing it four times we started up a long steep slope and reached Teddy Ballantynes former gold workings on BUATAI Creek at 9:20. Alt. 290 m. Tree ferns and birds of paradise (P. decora) a little below this. Here well massed tall rain forest. Creek very bouldery and with moderate fall. Stayed over an hour and had drink of tea while the carriers cooked rice. 10:45. 580 m. Moved on (alt. 280 m.) up creek a few hundred yards. then fairly steep climb in places but slopes generally gradual 12:20, 550 m. Forest of smaller trees in which Dacrydium appears; many surface rocks; scrambling slender bamboo and a climbing Nepenthes. Rain forest. 620 m. First oak noticed in the stunted forest (it was cut by Gray a week ago. Slender . Not a change to regular mid-mountain forest. 650 m. Dipteria conjugate growing beside a 30. 30 ft. Dacrydium which Ted and Lionel climbed to view Sewa Bay on their reconnaissance. 660 m. Distinct changes in stunted forest of Dacrydium and smaller leaved angio- sperma . Much Sphagum on ground, scrambling Lycepedium cernuum; a bladderwort grow- ing in mass on one tree. 720 m. Lookout Knob. Coast and a small ship visible. Many palms and a change is good tall forest swamp camp site about 1/2 mile ahead. OBIA prominent to right. 710 m. Dacrydium forest ended on a steep small rocky stream. 2:15 (I) Camp reached, Lionel, most of our own boys and a few fast carriers ahead of us. Alt. 730 m. Camp on PABINAMAMountainin what appears to be tall "mossy forest". Forest composition still to be seen. An epiphytic red Rhododendron flower- ing on edge of camp clearing. Alt. at 4:30 700 m. Some mist from mid-afternoon into evening. Two flies and two tents rigged ; a palm shelter for cook house. Good level ground. A little moss clearing will open up a good view of the coast and the S. edge of Good- enough Bay on the mainland. Lionel and Ted did an excellent job in opening up a route From Ballantyne Camp and picking the camp site. On their recoo, trip Lionel made camp altitude 730 m. 2770 ft. We seem to be only a few hundred (500-7000 feet below the summit of the sharp-topped tambu mountain) BIA (3400' on the 1 mile map), so our altitude is probably about what Gray made it — say 2700 ft. Monday May 1: Continued light rain before dawn. Nothing later, into evening. (7:30). All hands spent most of day in preparing this PABINAMA Camp. Digging latrines, making work tables of sticks and split palm, etc. Carriers given breakfast of rice paid 7/ each , and sent back to their villages. Sent with one of the three escorting councillors; a letter to Norman Izod posting him on events. Did some botanizing in afternoon. A common small tree-fern (Sytthea) 4 tree spp., etc. collected. A Xanthonytus (a Dicospermum) fruiting plentifully in the forest indicates that this is what I have called "mossy forest". Forest canopy at camp about 60 ft. high. Nearly all small-leaved trees. About 115 traps out this evening . Several Petaurus calling around CampSome