L. 20, P. 3. There are now about 30 local natives who occasionally bring a bird, cat or other creature. A number of them have put up a shelter across the river, so it looks as though they intended staying a while. They speak the same language as those we had with us at Palmer Junction. We have now a bit of their vocabulary, and Champion Harris some years ago got quite a lot of it. Today they brought sugar cane tops which our boys promptly planted in the clearing. Some are dark-leaved, others remarkably pale. They have secured canoes on the river & paddle them with the usual primitive paddles - a cleft stick with a bit of bark secured in the cleft. Monday, June 29. Fine rain. River high. In traps a fourth sp. J. Kelage - belly cut up by traps. Long tail dark above below. Color brown, under parts white to roots of hairs. A non-brachy adult female. Skull with short antumn - This may be M. gracilis. A bad day: Rain most today. Went out along new trail described June 14. Found that my boys have pretty lengthened it. In afternoon took walks along old S. Trail. Locals brought in some sugarcane and bananas and a Nyetimere. Tuesday, June 30. Rain at night. Big flood in river this morning (both Palmer & Block must be down). Heard it at 1 a.m. It is only 6 feet below camp level + just even with the little native house on the other side. The water goes rushing past us every now & then a story up-well breaks on the now deeply submerged line tree. This high water will make things inconvenient for the party coming out. By 10 o'clock the river had sunk about a foot, all the rocks up in the woods are locked up with 8 or 10