SAT. 28 MAR. 1953 MENAPPI 1 MELOMYS IN TRAP LINE, NEW FOR COLLECTION. A TINY LITTLE BOY BROUGHT ME 2 MICE (MUS) VINE ATTACHED TO A HIND LEG OF EACH. GAVE HIM A CRACKER. ANOTHER VILLAGE BOY BROUGHT ME 2 YOUNG BUT LARGE RODENTS (SP?). AND FINALLY NATIVE CAME IN WITH SMALL BROWN & WHITE RAT - ALSO TIED TO VINE - SAYS IT COMES FROM WRAPPED BANANA STALK (STILL ATTACHED). SKINNED ALL A.M. (DAVID); CLEANED SKULLS - SHOWED LIK-LIK HOW. ISILELE WAS GETTING PRACTICE DOING CUS-CUS FEET. WILL COME HANDY IN THE MTS. TONIGHT WAS ONE OF THOSE NIGHTS: WE FIRED AT 3 SQUIRRELS & DID NOT GET ONE. FOR THE LAST DAVID WENT UP COCONUT TREE WITH 2 FEET IN STRAP + CLIMBED IN + AROUND FROUNDS NUTS (NOT AN EASY JOB). I SHOT A YELLOW-MANTLED PETEROPUS. DAVID HAD LIGHT COMING IN + SPOTTED A TINY BLOSSOM BAT UNDER COCONUT FROND. SHOT + MISSED. MOON ALMOST FULL. NO SMALL BATS SHOT TONIGHT. HIM MADE BREAD - EXCELLENT, HAD VISIT BEFORE DINNER FROM FATHER CHISHOLM + MISS KINNEAR. BISHOP DUE TOMORROW. GEOFF + I WALKED DOWN TO VISIT BILL MASON FOR A FEW MINUTES. MET HIS PARTNER'S WIFE, MRS. SPILLER - A NATIVE PAPUAN. VERY PLEASANT. LEN STRAINED BACK + COULD NOT GO OUT TODAY - BOYS BROUGHT IN A FEW PLANTS. 3 FOOT GOANNA IN ONE OF BOYS TRAPS. BOYS STILL SINGING - THEIR FAVORITE PASTIME. VERY PLEASANT TONIGHT.