September-2 turned east following the coastline to the grassy 10,000 foot airstrip at Finschhaven. In the 1920's, somewhere on this northeast coast of the Huon, Rollo Beck, the famous bird collector for the Whitney South Seas Expedition, landed and visited Sevia in the Cromwell Mountains. He At FINSCHHAVEN collected birds and a few mammals. Here we met Brian Lee, who invited us to use a Civil Aviation house when we returned from Lae. We arrived in Lae at 2:00 P.M. after a 40 minute flight and saw our precious collections safely stored in the Botany shed. We arranged to sail on September 11 on the small ship "Beringa" with Capt. Edward Foad, who was on his way to the Siassi Islands. Leaving at 10:15 P.M. we had a calm all-night trip through the Huon Gulf to Malasiga, arriving at 6:00 A.M. on the east coast of the Huon Peninsula, and then on to Dregerhaven at 8:00 A.M. We hired a battered Jeep and moved into our new "home" on the Civil Aviation grounds, a beautiful palm-studded spot on the shore of the Solomon Sea touched by the southeast trade winds. Bats were to be our constant companions for the next two weeks. Bat collecting may be pursued anywhere up to 10,000 feet in New Guinea, but if one wants a variety of species he stays below 3,000 feet. This was our first opportunity during the expedition to collect near sea level. This was our prime reason for leaving the high Saruwageds to our botanist and ecologist friends (Hoogland and Costin) and taking the low road instead. it was an excellent decision as the events of the next two weeks proved. Much as I love the high alpine country on top of New Guinea Grierson and I immediately asked everyone within reach if they knew of any bat caves. The Agricultural Officer had a native assistant who said he knew of a cave in the ridge that overlooks the airstrip. The cave was no myth. At five