L. 12, P. 5 Tues. Mar. 24. The second flight was pulled off today. This time we only got up at 5 oclock. The ship took off the water at 6.37; crossed the Fly at 7.05. This time we took a course which kept us well to the east of the Strickland River and bore on the notch in the mountains through which it emerges and which Karius, patrol officer named the Devil's Race. Today we made a few new discoveries. The course was west of north, set at 310 degrees but with some easterly drift. and went up between the River and the Leonard Murray Mountains which have not been explored yet. At 7.52 a.m. we crossed a small very distinct crater lake, and a few minutes later another larger lake which had previously been described. The Leonard Murray Mountains became clearly visible but clouded over again soon. On the western foothills of the mountains we saw signs of a large population: extensive and continuous garden patches. Also between crater lake and the other a sizable river flowing over a water fall, whose course I could not follow. At 8 oclock we passed what appeared t be a small broken out crater beneath us and on the left.; at 8.03 Leonard Murray Mts. bore straight right from the plane, and on its slopes the above mentioned gardens appeared. At 8.12 passed a strongly developed east-west rift, apparently a line of faulting but I could not tell direction of fall in it of water, even if there were any. We were flying 320 degrees. At 8.25 saw deeply fissured ravines to right. A very high limestone mass of mountains ahead and on right with its top in the clouds. A loop of the Strickland, the first seen of the river appeared for a moment full right. Series of parallel ridges seemed to incline from nw to se away from the mass of limestone just mentioned. The Strickland gap for which, as I have mentioned earlier, we were headed now appeared very near. We were flying at about 1900 meters now. Over to the left Mts. Blucher, Sare, and behind them the Dap Range and a host of lesser mountains could be seen rather clearly. The Great Limestone Mass now filled the entire horizon from east of north to due east. At 9.50 we entered the Strickland basin through the . An immense gulf immediately appeared below and to the right, and beyond on the same side a deep valley with a water fall dropping from the top of the limestone range. That valley was crossed at 8.55, and shortly afterwards another much larger and deeper gorge coming in from the northeast and nearly twenty miles in length was reached at eight fifty nine. In the bottom of that gorge was one of the main tributaries of the Strickland. At 9 oclock our course was changed to due west and we skimmed among the ranges with the Victor Emanuel range, rather fog clothed on our right and the inner face of the Blucher range to the left. The Blucher is joined by an eastern spur from the Dap range which divides the Palmer basin from the Strickland basin. Over that ridge we flew, and down the basin off the Palmer to the gap between Blucher and Sare, through which Palmer makes its exit to the lowlands south. The plane at once changed course and turned west along the southern front of the Sare Range to find the spot where the Fly similarly comes out of the mountains. Both Palmer and Fly come out through immensely deep gorges similar to that of the Strickland. We turned into the mountains once more through the Fly gap and passed up the Bol, tributary of the Fly along the northern face of the Sare. That face was definitely precipitous and between the Sare and the Dap Range a connecting ridge some 6000 feet above sea level separated the basins of the Bol and the Palmer. The above description is doubtless confusing, but the drawing that goes with this account ought to help clear the matter up. For the second time we flew out through the Palmer gap, and this time dipped down from 2000 meters to examine the possibilities of using one of the reaches of the Black, Palmer or Fly for landing on. One or two spots offered distinct possibilities of success. We flew up and down the rivers just on a level with tree tops the while we examined for depth of water, absence of snags, etc.. That job finished we cut across to the west to take a look at the Alice or Teddi River. That one proved to be n. g. so we headed for home, getting a distinct glimpse of Lake Murray at 10.48 and reaching Daru at 1*.23.