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Lr 18, P. 14
plenty of evidence of having once had heavy traffic over
it: the tree-roots are now + exposed. moreover,
it runs th[rough] high ridgy country & is very steep &
+ well laid down. City Willis + Healy didn't find
it; they came over the old track which is more rounded out.
A comparatively short distance brings one onto ridgy
country, apparently formed of the sandstone conglomerates
which we had down at Palmer Junction. Thus the
r.s. appears (?) to override the limestone.
Saw no mammals.
When I came back from re-baiting
this afternoon I found the wei [sic] mice
new back again - eight of them this
time. They had brought a large pig,
some sugar cane, sweet potatoes and
bananas. We gave them a hatcher
for the pig, & the gifts in proportion.
From the tree-ladder could see 4x7.
Saw, partly cloud hidden and over its
right shoulder the much higher Mt
Fair (our destination) also partly
crested over... (Note: our boys are missing hymns
every night to themselves).
Monday. June 15. Added three new mammals to the
camp, they had all of them before at Palmer Junction:
Lager arboreal Melomys, Entallowna and the tail-less
macroglossine bat. In afternoon shifted trap-line to the
ridgy country along the trace of the N.W. Patrol.