L. 18. P. 3. Down on the ground with the foot, while a piece of cutty "lawyer cane" (Calamus) is pulled rapidly back & forth around it. The stick smokes & thrusts into flame, and the operator falls backwards to the ground, appearing much exhausted. A new (?) for this camp) Determin; but it looks awfully like the big one at Dave. Archbold told me I tonight that the plane is fixed up and we are to expect them tomorrow. 31 mammals today. The natives are beginning to offer us more and more of their beads & bows & arrows & armguards and pipes. I have not tried yet to get any but want some just the same. Thursday, June 4. Fielstedt reports plane OK & likely to start about 8 am. The river has risen 6 feet. The plane has done a splendid job today, Rogers flying it alone. Three loads of people & equipment averaging 1700 lbs each have been taken this afternoon to the mouth of the Black River. Brass & his three boys and two of mine have gone. Here in camp Rand & I have had our hands full managing more than a hundred wild men of the woods. Persuading them to carry, keeping some sort of order & discipline among them, paying them off and finally buying all their birds & furs & sending them home. It's pretty tectic with such numbers & certainly Rand