Tues. 14 Apr. 1953 Menapi. Rain all A.M. 2 specimens in traps. Made them up & puttered about most of day. Ken gave 6 of the boys practice with shotguns. None of them can shoot except David. Len is planning top camp on Menapi & we all spent P.M. segregating material. Porter loads are to be about 35 pounds. So far I have 2 coll. boxes, 1 under down box (for specimens I hope to get), 2 swag bags with traps in tow, 1 ammo box with my personal clothes + bedding swag. No cots, tables or chairs on top. Plan to spend 1 month on top, 1 month at middle camp, 1 at low altitude + 1 on coast. Then back to Semarai to re-outfit about middle of September. Menapi is not a very good collecting locality & things are getting slow. Most of flying foxes seem to have cleared out. Luckily we arrived when we did. "Ruru" leaves tomorrow about 8:30 A.M. Ken, Geoff + I + 5 boys going to Dabora for another visit to Tapitapipi caves. Geoff is intrigued by the possibility of capturing a bottle-nosed snake in the cave. We walk home along coast. Ken, David + I out for bats at dusk but did not shoot any. Not a good bat night. David & I tried for flying squirrels - saw 2 but could not collect. Traps in every corner of house tonight - no luck last night. Len had a nightmare: thought large bat bit his back, grabbed it by snout & yelled for me - woke up & found small beetle biting him! I set new trap line today in rain forest N. of rest house. Stars out for a while but raining again now. 80°F.