9:20. Over from dark side of sky (course ESE). Things are pretty well settled onboard now. Of necessity we are very crowded however. The tiny cabin is aft, about 4 wide by 7 long; a bunk bed either side, a table in the middle and a large amount of gear all about the floor. In addition my radio is inside the cabin. Nicholson & Mass sleep in the two bunks, and I have a cot outside against the stem well protected from the weather by tarpaulins and closer than the cabin. Up above, on the cabin roof itself, Willis & Healy sleep. A big tarpaulin has been stretched over the main boom to make a shelter over them. The boom having been raised 5 feet up the mast. Meals are cooked by our cook forward in five places made by cutting often 40-gallon steel reservoir drums and are served in the cabin! Most of our fare comes out of cans except onions & potatoes which we carry dry in crates. The day begins with coffee & the boys putting away the cots & bedding. Then comes radio contact with Dan, breakfast, radio with Pat Morenly. Afterwards while the boys clean up & do the decks, carefully we sit around & discuss plants and observe and make notes. The comes along at about 11 and level at 12:30. Afternoon ten at 4 & radio with Dave at 4:30. Before sundown a general clean up is in order. Then we gather before supper to take a small drink & at 5:15 I got time signals from California, with dinner finished we sat about & chat while the boys are getting beds & baths ready. In latter concord of water (water in a bucket slightly warmed by addition of warm water for the cooling system of the engine). As you join it pour yourself with a cup. It's good even though primitive. As I write this I see Willis dozing with one foot on the table, Nicholson glancing through an engineering magazine, Healy reading the Saturday Evening Post & Press quiet matter. Rand is up "top-side" somewhere. Press & I tried to get some interior of the cabin. Besides all the above, the two boys Blue and Strike occupy the least cas vacated spaces of the cabin floor. Such, man a less, is a day off aboard the ship's "Maia". 10:51am Another small wake from S.E (our course E). 10:40 Another well marked ridge from WE turns sheer but no cut banks showing - heavy forest. 11:30 Half closes view on left bank of fly. No house. 11:00 Crocodile on bank 12:03 House and small garden - no purple seen - house or ground,