TUES, 21 APR, 1953 MENAPI: ANOTHER LUNGDAY. FOUND A BANDICOOT IN MY GRASS TRAP LINE. FLY-BLOWN. SO MADE FORMALIN SOLUTION TO HOLD SKIN + KILL EGGS. WORKED VERY WELL. BILLY BROUGHT IN A SMALL BANDICOOT THAT THEY CAUGHT IN GRASS. DAVID CAUGHT ANOTHER SHORT-TAILED GRASS RAT MADE UP ALL SKINS (2 GLIDERS - 2 BATS - 2 BANDICOOTS - 1 RAT) JACK PETERS - MEDICAL ASST. AT BANJARA CAME IN AT MID-DAY FROM HIS PENINSULA WALKABOUT - ON WAY HOME FROM DABORA. FROM BRISBANE - VERY PLEASANT - INTERESTED IN MY WORK. SEEMS TO KNOW NATIVE HEALTH PROBLEMS + CURES MORNING + AFTERNOON CLINICS. NATIVES COME FROM ALL OVER STAYED FOR DINNER. MORE RATION EANS. SPAG. + MEAT BALLS HAMBURGERS + DELICIOUS GRAVY. OPENED A CANDY + CRACKER TIN, ALSO A JAM, COOKIE + CRACKERS TIN. SOL. COFFEE (VERY POOR) SUGAR + PWD. MILK IN EACH CAN. DAVID TRACKING EAST OF MENAPI SHOT ANOTHER CUSCUS (W. 2 TINY POUCH YG. - ATTACHED). I SHOT A DOBSONIA + SMALL YELLOW-MANTLED PTEROPUS. MORE FOXES ABOUT TONIGHT THAN FOR 2 WEEKS. VERY STILL TONIGHT. NO WIND. FEW DROPS OF RAIN IN A.M. IT WAS CLEAR TODAY + WE COULD SEE MAINLAND MOUNTAINS. KEN + I HAD A CHAT TONIGHT AFTER OTHERS WENT TO BED ABOUT NATIVE WAYS + THINKING. PATRICK HERE TODAY NO WALLABIES BUT PROMISES TO GO OUT AGAIN. KEN + DAVID MAY GO OUT TO BIG SCRUB N. OF HERE TOMORROW P.M. JACK AT NIGHT, CAMP OUT, PUT TRAPS DOWN + RETURN TO MENAPI THURS. A.M. NO LUCK SHOOTING SMALL BATS TODAY. FIRST MONTH (31 DAYS) OF TRAPPING ENDED TODAY. TOTAL OF SPECIMENS = 417 - A LOT OF WORK. DON'T EXPECT TO KEEP US THIS AVERAGE (WILL NOT FIND BAT CAVES EACH MONTH).