Tuesday June 5: Only 6 of our 37 carriers of yesterday are willing to go on to the mountain camp despite an arrangement with Lionel that they would do the whole trip. I discovered this last night, fell in the carriers and talked through Kim. No good. Therefore asked and was promised 25 carriers by the Agamoia V.C.. People want the p a day. Local carriers late in turning up and it was 7:30 before I got away with 25 loads (6 of them women): the 6 remaining Saibutu. Those local councillors carried full loads; Saibutu coulcillor with us. Road followed the Agamoia spur ridges up a little way then dropped through primary rain forest to cross the LAILA at at 7.20 m. (Agamoia 170 m. this AM). BUDAGATATUGONA hamlet on far bank. WA-IU hamlet of 3 houses 8:30. Mostly steep climbing from there on, with sharp-tipped OIBWAGA (fide Saibutu councillor) across the Lilai on left. At 10:30 reached alt. 700 m. where the trail left the crest of the spur had been following big Araucaria trees in oak forest here (oaks for ca. last 100 m.). Very steep slopes descended on a very narrow winding track to a very small stream at 680 m. Reached stream 11:00, ahead of carriers. Lunch stop for 2 hours. Last water. Camp supply. Light showers as we rested. Camp at 780 m. reached at 1:20 after a very steep 25 minute climb from stream. Good ground. Oaks predominate and conspicuous by brown under surface of their leaves, in wet looking forest 50-100 ft. high. Camp on a nice bench about 50 ft. below crest of the main Agamoia-Morima divide. Paid off the local carriers at their request - I saved therey 50 lbs. rice. They left for their villages about mid-afternoon . (Besides the three councillors the NIUBULA policemen carried loads). The two flys and my tent rigged before duskand the boys finished making their sleeping platforms well above the ground. Our drum of kerosene is somewhere between here and Iamelele. Borrowed a very small hurricane lamp (German) ½ from one of the Saibutu carriers to eat by, I was in bed by 7 o'clock. The last two days have been strenuous. Wed. June 6: Heavy rain with thunder, through much of the night after 11 o'clock. Rain on and off with rather strong wind all day, hampering the workof rig- ging camp. Paid the Saibutu carriers and gave II councillor a present of £1 after breakfast & they disappeared over the crest of the divide on a visit to the Morima coast. Broke off supervision of camp construction to examine the divide above us. Camp altitude when I left was 775 m. bu anuroid, Lionel's night camp on the crest, a bit to the west 800 m. A saddle in the divide to the south, under a peak much higher & bigger than our slight eminence, 750 m. In the gap the natives have cut a fly-way which they net for pigeons. A rattan cane stretched across the fly-way has small bunches of dried grass attached to it. Watching the natives shake the rattan, the attention of the pigeons is caught as they fly over and they go into the net. Several carriers arrived at 9:50 and at 11 o'clock Rus arrived from Agamoia ; had 10 carriers and three spare councillors; journey of 4 hours. Carried by 13 Iamelele men the 11 loads I left at Iamelele on Monday reached Agamoia about 2 PM yesterday, too late for Rus to come on. Nothing in 30 traps put out late yesterday. A whirring of many cicadas ("6 o'clock crickets"?) at 8 min. to 6 PM. Thursday June 7: Rainy and squally most of last night. Keen wing from NE in forenoon; high overcast and little sun all day; some mist in treetips late