L. 13, P. 1 April 5, 1936. The following is typed from pencil notes taken from Apr. 1 to 4 inclusive, while on short trip up the Oriomo River to Wuroi and Dogwa: Wed. Apr. 1. Left Daru at 7 a.m. on Dr. Vernon's gasoline boat the Veri-veri, with Beach, Rogers and Julstedt, and a dozen of the boys. We were going up to get a motor generator and other material from the abandoned Oriomo Oil Company's place at Dogwa. We reached the mouth of the Oriomo a cross the channel which lies between Daru and the mainland at 7.30 a little too late for the best of the tide, in consequence of which we [illegible] took until nearly 3 p.m. to reach Wuroi. The tide runs all the way up to Wuroi, and the river is very winding, the total distance is nearly 40 miles. The lowest reaches of the Oriomo river are bordered with mangrove swamps with their characteristic slimy mud banks, covered at high tide; next several miles of Nipa palm, their bases submerged at high water, but their great fronds welling up to form a dense screen of foliage fifteen to twenty feet high, and their fruiting heads the size of coconuts mostly afloat. Beyond the Nipa began rain forest (that is what Brass calls it), or gallery forest, as we all it in south America, with the banks of the river no longer so muddy and all the mangroves left behind. Several interesting palms appear in that forest, among them one very tall, slender and graceful head and shoulders above the general level of the tree tops, of which Brass had asked us to get the fruit (but when we had cut several down it was found that they were out of season in April). The banks showed cut in a few places and appeared to be of shaley clay with the strata horizontal. No mammals were seen but some herons, a pair of tree ducks, hornbills, ibis, etc. All the way up (and down again) Rogers and Julstedt were set to get something with rifle or shotgun. We didn't however. The boys sprawled around asleep for most of the distance. We had a fire box on the boat and I had Mahabudi our cook boy make tea and get us some lunch about 1 ock. Wuroi is a small clearing on a ridge which abutts on the river, where there is a large galvanized iron store house, and a couple of shelter shacks, one in which old machinery is stored the other for shelter for boys. We unloaded everything and made ourselves comfortable in the big house, spending the night there. The Wuroi clearing is a little grassy opening in the rainforest edging the river, and from it a corduroyed road runs southwest away from the river, coming out in a few minutes on tea tree savanna, in the direction of Dogwa six and a half miles away. Julstedt and Rogers started out up the trail to try to shoot something, the former getting two little birds. I walked out after them a bit later, as I wanted to see how the trail was for night connecting. Wallabies were evidently rather plentiful, judging from the way the grass of the savannas was beaten down. That evening I shot three, but the moon was rather strong and their eyes did not shine particularly well. I left them lying on the trail to be picked up and put on the wagon which the boys were to push in to Dogwa next morning. Thur. Apr. 2. Saw the cart loaded and covered, then went ahead. The trail follows a ridge practically all the way, just a low rolling type of ridge, with Eucalyptus-Tea-tree savanna and of course not a drop of water all the way. There were quite a lot of birds, mostly noisy parrots and sulphur-crested cockatoos. I saw only one wallaby and he had already seen me and was bounding away at a prodigious pace. Reached Dogwa about two hours later. A big house with verandas on all four sides of it, the customary tin roof, and the whole badly run-down, with termites all through the timbers and wasps building mud nests everywhere. The house, near which are half a dozen smaller houses and shelters is finely located on the top of an open savanna ridge, from which the land falls gently away on three sides. The road comes in from the north, and the best view is had to south across arather large pond fringed with red Azolla and with water lily pads floating it, towards a great grass- covered ridge half a mile away. The hollows contain tea tree savanna for the