afternoon; no rain to nightfall. Lionel arrived from Mapamoiwa about 10 AM, having slept at UKEC KEO (UKAIOKAIO OF Kk of 1/2-mile map) on the Morima coast. Had the village constable & a councillor with him, also WALIA, who was Rand's head boy on the Fly River in 1936-37. Heard I was here and came up to see me. Lionel walked up in about 3 hours. Good track, he says, & moderate slopes. The threatening weather in early morning kept me close to camp. Collected on the immediate crest over 30 numbers. Mostly basic species, but a nice [illegible] ________ Off the sub-slope, a Cyathea, and at least six orchids including a brilliant orange and yellow Dendrobium of which I made close-up color photos. Forest of crest, as of the upper slopes, dominated by an oak made conspicuous by brown under-leaf surfaces. Tall Araucarias prominent on crests of main slopes and lateral spurs. Nothing in 125 traps out last night. No jacking. At daylight this morning, and yesterday too, heard the beat of drums down the slopes to ca. north. No cicada sounds this AM. Camp construction complete, this afternoon had spare boys begin cutting forest to open a view and let the afternoon into camp. Already we can see Lake Labu and the cost of Hughes Bay. Friday June 8: Fine day until 3 PM when mist settled down at camp level and lasted until after dark. A few sprinkles with the mist; patches of blue sky sometimes showed through it above. Cicadas began to sound at 5:55 PM; no sound from them this morning. They do not begin their evening chorus with an extra loud, shrill note, as on the mainland. Lionel cut a direct track to the top of the first & second peaks in the east; he did not carry the anuroid. I followed an old, very bad native track which sidles around the N side of the first peak. In rain forest; nothing of great interest. Track very narrow with steep fall, & made dangerous by slippery tree roots. I had one fall. One young gray rat (Rattus) in traps last night; four Pogonomyx cut from a tree today. 175 traps out tonight, including a steel set with meat here in camp, and two rat traps set on trees in camp. Three women and 3-4 small boys & girls stopped an hour or two en route FAIYANA an the morning Morima Coast to AGAMOIA. Unusual to see women travelling without escort. A man and his son & a dog, sans spear, came up from the Morima coast this AM to sat- ify his curiosity about us, and went back after a meal of rice. Sat. June 9: In mist clouds almost continuously from ca 8-4o'clock. Heavy rain L-l:30 PM. Thunder this evening (thunder every night since we have been here. Wind c. SE. Botanized eastward along the coastline ca. 1 1/4-1 1/2 miles, by a new track cut by Lionel yesterday. Highest elevation 850 m. by anuroid which must be wrong We will have to see the marine charts for altitudes hereabouts. The 1-mile map is quite un- reliable for anything. A Dicsonia probably the most important plant collected, Several more orchids. Two spp. Nepenthes. Lionel cut further along the ridge west in the clouds, reaching 900 m. by anuroid. Another young gray rat in ca. 175 traps out. Seven Pogonomyx cut from one tree by the boys. Three boys jacked for nothing last night; Rus for a while before dawn, shot at two bats. A comparison of Pogonomyx total-length maximum by Rus shows the Normanby animals to be much bigger than those of this island; the mountain forms bigger