Tuesday 20 October 1953 (cont) Top Camp Len had a long morning; collected what he believes to be a new genus of palm. No luck at bat shooting tonight. Kim brought in a most beautiful green spotted tree frog. I am recording and collecting "Herps" now that Geoff has left. Len is doing a few "Micros". Delicious dumplings & pineapple fritters tonight. Nothing in our new trap lines in the valley stream. Wednesday 21 October Our hunter turned up with another cuscus & a ♀ Dobsonia with a young one still attached by the umbilical cord. Another immature ♂ captured in same tree. Nothing in traps. Found a Vaccinium--lovely pink bell flowers--to which many birds were attracted (even a parrot was feeding there). Most of the day was spent skimming & preparing material & trying to dry out large skins. The sun was out most of the time. Clouds & a shower of rain came over at dinner time--just evenough to spoil the jacking. Losima & I caught a few frogs including the one that makes the shrill piping--very small. And so to bed with an old N. Y. H. Trib. Book Review section to read. Thursday 22 October Losima had his turn at catching a Rattus. Hunter was in early--this time with his 6th wallaby. He gets cash for the first 2 and a drum of salt for the other 4. The dogs started this wallaby near the stream below us. Shot another scarlet and black honey eater--this time I made a good skin. Started my packing for our Saturday move. Skins not dry: hope we have plenty of sun at next camp. Full moon tonight, but a warm cotton mist was swirling in the trees spoiling our jacking. So we collected frogs again. The Honey eater was on the Vaccinium. First Horn bill flew over camp today. Now 7 months in field. Friday 23 October Our last day at this camp. And as always happens on this trip one of our best specimens came in at the last moment. Our river trapping paid off with a Hydromys in Isilele's line. A young ♀ ; our first for the island. This is one of the 6 species recorded by Beck. Brings our species total to 20. Ken sent a note up with the carriers that he has shot a "Vagita" or lowland wallaby--our first with the exception of lower mandibles. Finished our packing & the boys have bound the poles on for carriers. 42 men & women showed up early this P.M. & are now camping under our 3 flys--quite a full camp. We have issued them with a feed of rice & meat and they seem quite happy; also a few sticks of trade tobacco as a present. We are clouded in now( 4:30 P.M.); just as long as we have no rain tomorrow ! Ken also sent contents of radiogram from Buntings--they will send boat to pick us up at Bolu Bolu on Nov. 14. All the people are now hunkered down around their smokey fires. Saturday 24 October Top Camp to #2 Camp (c. 900 M--may be lower). Up at 5:00 A.M. to break camp & get our carrier loads organized. Sun came up & our usual good luck with weather prevailed once again. We left at 7 A.M. & arrived in camp a little before 10 A.M. We came along the long grass ridge and had beautiful views of the triple peaks. Took pictures of the carrier line. Ferguson mts. covered with thick cumulus. Leaving the spur we goat-tracked down a new cut trail thru thick forest. Our camp seems to be in a transition zone between oak and rain forest. It is in a small cove with a little flat ground for our flys