SEPTEMBER The carry from Indagen (6,000 feet) to Iloko (5,500 feet) was made in six hours on September 1, a fair hot day that was relieved only by a swim in the cold waters of the Kwama River which takes its source in the high Saruwaged Mountains. We crossed the grain of the country, passing through a number of small villages. Nearly all the land was under cultivation or had been cut over in recent years. At Iloko we traded for artifacts AND TROPHY SKULLS and lined up carriers for the final carry to Kabwum on September 2. During (THE FIRST WE HAD SEEN SINCE LEAVING THE this six hour journey we had the good fortune to collect a humus frog on a mountainside (5,800 feet) just south of the village of Indum. Kabwum (5,000 feet) was reached at 1:30 P.M. and we were promptly invited for drinks by Patrol Officer Tony Heriot and Mrs. Heriot. We wirelessly Crowley Airways to pick us up the following day, but we were to be held in Kabwum for six days by bad weather either in Lae or Kabwum. Each morning would see us packed and waiting on the airstrip, which slants down from south to north at an angle of 15°. A cliff partially blocks airspace a few hundred feet beyond the north end of the strip. Every mountain landing field has its own personality in New Guinea! However, prangs are few and far between. The Department of Civil Aviation has strict rules, and New Guinea boasts some of the finest bush pilots in the world. The long delay was not without profit. What is probably the largest one-locality collection of spiders WE WERE enthusiastically aided in the collecting by Lionel Tilley, the young Agricultural Officer stationed at Kabwum. Finally on September 8 the single engine Otter arrived, and, after all the expedition gear and personnel were carefully weighed (load limits were strict) we left for Finschhafen. We followed the course of the Kwama River to the north cost at Vincke Point, passing over large areas of forested hills, and then