Had Brother Grantwell to dinner. Plain bushman from Dalby, Queensland. Worked on farms, then for an undertaker. Has two brothers in the Church as lay breathren and another brother about to be ordained as a priest. Wed. October 24: Very heavy rain from daylight (5 o'clock) to after six in the morning; 162 points at the mission. More rain during the morning interrupted my field work. Afternoon fine and hot. Went up the mountain trail as far as a big new garden at approximately 80 m. Collected 18 numbers in second growths and primary forest (have 48 for three days at the camp). A curious pimiate substage tree with red cauliflorous flowers. Freak condition of thousands of short pendent (e.g. 1 m) adventitious leafy shoots from a big canopy tree whose branches had been entirely stripped off by falling trees when the garden was cleared. These shoots in flower. The hospital boy caught two more ruber in his two traps. A Pteropus conspicillatus shot by ikamak Rus. Bait changed to sweet potato and coconut today. We have daily contact with the mission. Rus drops in there often. Today Lionel fixed their broken-down lighting plant (small Lister diesel with injector trouble). "The mission small launch "Bambino" was sent around to Abaleti with an injector for cleaning. Brought back for us a tin of flour. Thursday Oct. 25: A rainless 24 hours. Today mostly with little cloud, and bright and hot. The evenings are warmer here I notice, than at Abaleti. And every morning close to dawn I wake and have to get half out from under my blanket. SandFlies are here, but in numbers too small to be troublesome. A few usually appear, and bite, toward sundown. Went up Wabu Creek about a mile, to where it narrowed and the hills began to close in. Tall forest broken by a new small garden clearing or two, and second growths (Riptadenia novoguineensis plentiflu) where gardens had been. Sago here and there on wet patches of ground. Taro the principal crop planted in the gardens. A fair number of bananas, some cassava, and odd plants of corn, hibiscus, etc. Have not seen any yams in this area. This seems to be a general season for burning off and planting the gardens. Trees usually clear felled. Sometimes the bigger trees are left standing, killed by fire, in the old Rossel fashion. Again nothing in departmental traps. The hospital boy brought in three more ruber from his two traps. Rus has not as yet inquired as to what the boy uses for bait. Three bats shot last night by Lionel; Pteropus conspicillatus, Nyctimene, and Macroglossus. Brother Grantwell came after dinner to play native songs for our Cosiages on the accordion and mouth organ. Only one of the boys came out to listen. Something went wrong. It might be the local feeling of Protestants versus Catholics and suspicion of the brother's motives. Grantwell once got as far as an audition in a national harmonica contest in Australia. Friday Oct. 26: Weather returned to strong SE. Rain threatened much of day. A thunderstorm in the evening. Day cooler than lately. Botanized up the mountain road again to about 80-100 m. Got only 11 numbers but there were mainly good trees of the primary forest. An Erythroxylon, the first on the trip, among them. The usual report on traps, two rats from the hospital traps. Kim, out shooting last night, got a cuscus and five Macroglossus. Previous to this, only one Macro-