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L.17, P.14
Sunday, May 31. Weather continues dry. One Trilops of the terrestrial species in trap this morning. Plane due tomorrow. Have 6 a.m. schedule with Dane.
Continual series of bats and two or three Trilops brought in by local people. A new bat and a Trilops both new to this camp and the former to the collectors. Mammals are coming in at the rate of a hundred a week just now.
Weather has changed & become rather rainy again. The Fly River is again rising.
Coming back with a large cricket in my hand from setting traps I met one of the Bushmen. He saw the cricket, his mouth began to water. He explained to me by the most expressive signs how good that cricket was to eat. Not content with that he shouted to his friends in various directions that one of the white people had a cricket now taking it to camp and from all directions & country came the answers.
Monday, June 1st. The plane went dry at 8.30, leaving Dane at 6.40. A good Trilops and a Phesugela the first mammal for the camp since taken by traps last night.