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L.19.P3.
Julestelt said by radio this morning. They think they are a day ahead of time and well may not be ready for them.
Monday, June 22. We lay an aerial Melmups in a still trap set made in the dry creek bed baited with fish. No other mammals. Heavy rain last night between 12 and 3. Plane coming in this a.m.
Got good look at mountains this morning from our ladder look out, but rising mist soon covered them up. Int. rain clearly visible over ridge shoulder of Mt Sare. This is the picture from up the ladder!
[Sketch with labels: Strom MT?, Mt Sore, Mt Fairin, The Palmu force comes out about here, Blucher Point, Palmer River, Strickland Mountains, Forest, ground here]
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For the first time the local natura brought in some mammals this afternoon: a bat (Nyctimere), a Melmups and a young Phalanger.
The plane did not come after all. They discovered at the last moment that tomorrow was the day set, so tomorrow they will come instead. Julestelt told me tonight that they have a new radio receiver in the plane.
Tuesday, June 23. Plane is supposed to be on way. No specimens in traps. Starting a garden: the soil very loose, humus filled and matted with roots.
But at noon learned from Dave that the plane had found the mountains clouded in and had just returned. A bat (Nyctimere) shortly one of Rand's boys. Another Nyctimere caught by bells this afternoon.