Tonight the water-plane stream in being trapped for the first timeTraps were supposed to have been there ffrom the beginning. Boys need more supervision than they have been getting. Working a double shift on the dryer in an effort to clean up accumulated plant collections. Friday June 15: Max. 23.5°, Min. 16°C. Clear, still night, no mist, no rain in the 24 hours. Weather SE and hazy. Worked 4 on specimens & sent boys down Morima slopes. They brought back only seven additions to the collection. The locality is about worked out. A brown Melomys, in the new trap sets on the stream: A Nyctimene geminus in one of the two bat nets set in camp. Melomys is a genus new for the island. No insectivorous bats caught so far in the few nights nets have been set on the trip. Are they alone furnished with "radar" and the fruit- &eating -eating species not so equipped? One of the Morima hunters who have been camped nearby returned this afternoon from a visit to the coastBrought 3 small Dobsonias from a cave on a creek near UKEOKEO? A Nyctimene & a bandicoot. No one in the leaf shelter when I passed it by this even- ing; hunter has perhaps gone home for good. He has brought in a nice lot of mammals for the collection & on local values, has carried a considerable amount of moneyfor himself (he has had a companion most of the time). This man has carried 41/- so far. Noticed in amazement this morning Iamelele eating a great plate of boiled rice after two days of illness& much groaning during two nights. It brought the remark from Lionel "When them bastards stop eating, they're crock." Tinker walked into camp at 6:45 PM, having left Mapomoiva at 10 AM, he says, and having walked the best part of an hour on a mountain trail by flashlight. He brought mails. But instead of the flashlight batteries we need so badly, a carton con- taining four bottles of rum. A general mess-up. No note from Crosby, who is being re- lieved by another EMH., with whom, apparently he was having a party. The new EMH was brought from Samarai by the medical vessel HEKAHA, according to Tinker. This vessel brought our cargo, the Kedeluma having broken down. Only the batteries were supposed to come on the Kedeluma (to AILULUAI? ON THE Morima coast); ½ dozen mammal plates (to replace plastic rubbish I bought in New York) & 4 bottles of rum were to be sent by the vessel due to pick us up at IAMELELE on June 27. Sent on the Hekaha were a case containing 6 dozen plates of the batteries, and a carton holding the rum. Crosby gave Tinker the rum; the batteries are still at Mopamoiva. Sat. June 16: Max. 23, min, 18 C. Light rain with heavy mist from dawn to about seven; misty to mid-morning; no further rain. SE weather. Tinker having volunteered to go back to Mopamoiva, departed about 8 AM with a let- ter from Lionel asking that the batteries & ½ doz. plates be extracted from the peaking case and sent back to camp with him. The Hekaha is supposed to return to Samarai tomor- ow & could drop Tinker at Miluluai en route. Botanized down the crest of a spur which an old path descends in the direction of NIUBULA Nine additions for this last excursion for this mountain camp, mostly ferns, including the first fertile Elaphoglossum for the trip, also a small tree of the Arabig- ceae. One small gray Rattus in traps. Nothing jacked although Rus fired two shots be- fore daylight. Kim, also out before dawn, came across something in the in the forest which must have been either a dog or Dorconis, but being a cook instead of an accom- plished hunter, he had no shell ready in his gun so the beast got away. 1953 Our/employees NIKO and several children up this afternoon from the Morima side to relieve our 3 Morima boys of their Saturday tobacco issue. But we are running short