Four gray Rattus in traps, a Nyctimenes shot last night, and a dobsonia from a mossy tree. by Lionel. Getting more plants than I can deal with in the evening. Pickled a bunch today. Sat. May 5: No rain last night. Clear until nearly daylight. The coldest night so far. Temperature at 6 AM 65°F. Intermittent mist and rain all day (some heavy showers) from 8-9 to 3-4 o'clock. Too much rain and visibility too poor for satisfactory botanizing. Worked in new territory opened up by Lionel yesterday. Close under crest of mountain. Wide nearly level shelf of several acres (as far as seen) covered with good tall mossy forest (only open underneath and easy to get about in. Composition about as at camp level, but a beach is a canopy tree. Collected a Lyzygium with small leaves (7.5735) and white subacid fruits which is an important dominant all through these forests (fruits eaten by Petaurus and Nyctimene at camp) Also gathered a tall palm common in the mossy forest of this and neighboring peeks, which has the appearance of a slender coconut. One rat and a rail in traps. No shooting. Lionel and Lik-lik camped yonight to trap a d shoot on the flat ground mentioned above. Found there today the spadix of a palm from which a grub appeared to have been removed by a Dactylopsila. Tinker to WAIKATUNA for mails and on to Sewz Bay to try to get a nstive to get come up here with with huntinh dogs. One of the councillors was supposed to have brought his dogs bfore this. Sunday May 6: Max. 27°, min. 18.5°C. The usual clear night. Followed by clear until about 10:30 AM. Cloud of heavy showers after that to near dark. Wetter day as far. Sky now (7:30) starry. Opened a new trail across the water place stream and a bit N of summit. Got into Dacrydium there, so cut up to "Lionel's plateau". Poor morning before rain sent me back to camp. But collected male flowers of the Nothofagus sp. first got in the Dacrydium forest at 750 m and here a small canopy tree in tall mossy forest. Nothing in traps. Nothing shot. Nothing from Lionel's night camp. Tinker returned from Waikaiuna with a big lot of mail, including a letter written by Geoff Tate. One from the Rev Cruttwell of MEANPI tells that "in 1954" he followed our trail Maneau, camped two nights at our # ? Camp, and from then went to the summit. We had to burn lamps in tents today to dry moss collections and clothes. Monday May 7: Clear night; Mist driving and sharp showers from about 9 to noon. Clear and mostly this to dark; air very hazy; wind from N and more bolsterous than hitherto. Max. 26°, min. 18°C. Botanized up to the crest and there with much trouble (mist and rain) made a few photos. This crest above us seems to be the 3400 ft. summit of the map, although I have never in three visits had clear enough weather to see all around. Two Nyctimenes shot from fruiting trees at camp during night by Rus, Eight Pogonomy s cut from hollow tree, five from a bit above camp level by the mammal boys, three from about ft. below camp, by Lionel and his Gay. Measurements indicate the species the same as on the lowlands of WAIKATUNA. Tuesday's mail brought word from Bunting that they expect to send a boat to move us to Ferguson Id. on the 19th or 20th. This is a day or two earlier than I asked.