Psychotria A rubiaceous small tree which comes close to Psychotria, but is strange to me. Nothing in traps last night. Two Bobsonia and a Nystimene shot by the cooks. Rus, complaining of being tired after a day at the preparations table, went to bed. Lionel has a poisoned foot. Tonight, Lionel is out in the drizzle, shaking down in the rain. Two natives went fishing this afternoon and from them we bought, for two sticks of tobacco each, two fine big green-nottled crayfish which seem to be have the local name BAGIA, and two somewhat reddish fish, bought for one stick the pair. Ate as much as we could of the crays this evening. Kim, as he is apt to do with anything not handled every day, made a mess of the meal, cooking it too early and serving it cold. Four blue pigeons shot yesterday. What with excellent pigeon soup, and quite good tenderized pigeon meat, and today's seafood, we are doing well off the country. We are getting only a few sweet potatoes from the native gardens. This seems to be a time of shortage. The ground was dry when we arrived here. Bom says the crops were suffering, and that the present rain was achieved by sorcery. As was anticipated, no carriers for the mountains turned up today. A start by Lionel tomorrow is possible. The people in the inland village, where the councillor lives, are Methodists and will not stir on Sunday. The Joe Landing folk are Catholic, however, and Bom says the young men will carry if the weather is fine. The guide will have to be the councillor from the inland village, who alone seems to know the way to the top of Riu. Sunday August 19: A lot of strong SE wind during last night. Fine this AM until about 10 O'clock, when drizzles began, clearing late in the afternoon. Lionel unable to get away again today. This is contributions Sunday for the Methodist mission. Native adherents have gone to give money and garden truck to the Tongan head teacher, or whatever he is called, who lives at Rambuso and yesterday went to a village west a few miles along the coast to do the collection. Worked inland up the track to a distance approaching two miles from the sea and altitude estimated at 150 meters. I omitted to record that a week ago today, "Drunken Sunday" in Bwagacia, when the young government officers left for Samarai with 2 dozen beer and 11 bottles of rum for the two day voyage, Fitzter threw our aneroid into the salt water at the wharf. I still don't know how Fitzter came to have the instrument. No native would dive for it. So Lionel went down in 5-6 fathoms and brought it up. The aneroid is now on the way to Australia for reconditioning. A good day for mammals. Nothing in traps. Two or three Nystimene shot by Lionel last night; a big Pteropus by Rus. The spare boys, out this morning some distance inland in the primary forest (?) got a very different looking adult Pogononyx and a half-grown young one. Body short, tail long and heavy, feet very big. Must be a new species. This evening Lionel shot at dusk a russet Miniopterus new to the collection, unless it is a color phase. This makes 8 species for the camp to date. Not bad for an area largely deforested. Learned this morning of old gold mining tunnels in the lower macountains, made by Tom Norley before the last war. Rus went up to the inland village this afternoon to arrange for an excursion to the tunnels Tuesday. Two inland villages seen by me this AM. Visited only one, Erinamole, where the councillor lives, c. 1½ miles inland and at about 400 ft. Clean place of 15 mostly big houses. Botanized mainly in relic strips of primary rain forest left in the gullies,