Monday 3 August 1955 River Camp (cont) eating nut in this part of New Guinea. About 2 inches long x 1/2 inch wide-- excellent white meat. Very good roasted. Kim & Lik Lik went jacking--shot at a Cuscus but it disappeared in the leaves. Wrote Mrs. Stocklebach & John Pallister. Tuesday 4 August This morning (about 3:15) Len woke me up & said a dog was howling near camp. I dressed and went out to see if he were caught in my steel trap set. Took 3 boys with me. Sure enough a small tan & white native dog was caught by the toes of a front foot. Threw a burlap sack over him & he quieted immediately. Sprung the trap & he ran off into the woods. Told boys to set all steels across the river. May bring them all in soon. They have yielded nothing at this camp. Good trap night. Young Uromys, 2 kinds of Rattus & Melomys--9 specimens. Geoff took Losima & Billy off for the day to visit the Rakua River. Found the river but no crocs. Len & I were here all day working. Unpinned some Bottom Camp specimens. Shot a Hipposideros in the flyway I found among the Casurina trees a few days ago. Out at 7:30 with Isilele. Shot an Antechinus (2nd for trip) that ran along the ground beside the Biniguni track. A few minutes later I collected our first Dactylopsila (striped possum) for the trip. Beautiful black and white marking and a long hairy tail. 3 new species for the day! Wednesday 5 August Only 3 Rattus in traps. Several visitors wandered into camp from Budumaga soon after breakfast. They had heard that we were buying spears, but they were too late--Geoff has already bought 3 for his Brooklyn apartment! At the end of 1 spear dangled a Melomys which I bought for a box of matches. Another man had a lovely frilled lizard which Geoff bought for matches & a razor blade; also 2 coconuts for a piece of newspaper. 2 carriers came in from Quagira with pack cloths, a pigeon (which we Kai kaied for dinner) and a note saying that all of our specimens had reached the Baiawa rest house safely. He is going to the village of Maneau today; he and David will sleep there and collect bats in a nearby cave tomorrow A.M. and come out to camp about mid-day. Isilele walked into camp this P.M. with 5 steel traps on a pole and a big Goana (lizard) with a foot in each trap. The Mammal Dept. is doing its best for the Herp. Dept. Kim came back with a "native cat" from his steels--our first for the locality. (16 species now) Isilele and I jacked for 2 hours tonight (Biniguni trail)--a Melomys in a pandanus was our only specimen--altho we heard many stirrings in the leaves. A beautiful day and a starry night. We had scrub hen scrambled eggs for breakfast. 2 eggs made a big plate & we had egg sandwiches for morning tea & egg in the shepherd's pie for lunch. Goropu was clear at various times today & the outline was sharp against the lemon evening sky. Thursday 6 August This started out as a normal day but ended with a bang. We skinned & I made up our few trap specimens in the morning. Just after lunch Ken & David arrived back in camp from Baiawa, via Manea0a. David brought me a Wallaby skull & Ken 2 plastic bags full of small bats--Hipposideros --all 1 species. There are a number of small caves in an isolated mass of limestone just north of the village of Manea0a. Ken paid 2 natives to crawl in & collect these bats in Iamai cave. I was right in the middle of cataloging, labeling, & dunking them in formalin when a police runner arrived with mail. Letters from K., Mother & Rus Peterson. Then another native arrived from Manea0a with 2 more clusters of bats, including 13 large Hipposideros (1 bright orange). Just as I finished these and sat down with the fruits of an afternoon hunt: 9 Pogonomys, 2 Melomys, and 45 small,