April 30. Left Warkhamma at 7.15 until 18.30. We carried about 38 loads, including me for carriers, but there is not a precise organizer and (ultimately, more carriers offered than were needed). Some carried light loads. Eight were for SARATAITAI on the east side of the island. LEBUDOWA River reached at 7.30 (about 1 mile). Crossing it (one time), we started up a long steep slope I reached Teddy Ballantynes former gold workings on BUATAI Creek at 9.20. 881 ft. 250 m. The forms & tracks of Prospector (P. decora) a little below this. There well marked Full rain forest. Track very bushy (considering it with moderate (all). Played over an hour I had drink of tea while the carriers cooked rice. 10.45. Moved on (all 280 m.) left creek a few hundred yards then fairly steep climb in forest (not slope generally gradual). 12.20, 580 m. Forest of small trees in which Eucrydium appears; many surface roots; scrambling shrubs (bamboo & a climbing Macfadenia). Rain forest. 620 m. First oak noticed in the stunted forest (it was cut by May a week ago). Thimble tree. Not a change in regular mid mountain forest. 650 m. B/Tuno conjugate growing (beside a 30 ft. Eucrydium which Ted & I could climb to view Teewa Bay on this reconnaissance. 660 m. Subtlet change in thicket (most of Eucrydium & small-leaved angiosperms). Mistle Tohagama on ground, scrambling Tyreecephalum cernuum, a (budding) was growing in moss on one tree. 780 m. Rockwall Knob. Coast & a small thicket. Overlook. They form a change in good tall forest. Mark camp. 316 about ½ mile ahead. OBIA prominent to right. 710 m. Eucrydium (most) and did a steep, small rocky stream. 2.15 (I). Camp reached. Travel, most of our own (log, d a fine first carrier ahead of me. Will 730 m. Camp in