Have now 80 rat traps out and a good many stul traps. L.21. P.35. Monday, Aug. 10. Started out with light last night but rain came on & I returned to camp. Archbold reports slow progress: they were still a mile below Rooggi Island when we talked this morning. So they will not reach here till tomorrow. In traps only a Rattus but the trees are bringing in melurus, a Melomys, a Pogonomys and this afternoon a female Phalanger. Took a walk down the river along a well-beaten track. Saw footprints of melomys, thomy?, and bandicoot. Did not go very far either. In afternoon more rats including two Pogonomys and a Phalange were brought in. Just before we went in to supper a light appeared far down the river. She faint hums of engines together with the yell of the boys showed that it must be the "Ronald S". By eight o'clock she was quite near, and in a few minutes anchored for the night. Archbold & Taledt with two Orville men Burke and Korn came aboard in the boat's dinghy. We talked till late. Tuesday Aug. 11. Unloading the "Ronald S". Our cargo had all to be taken out to get at the Orville cargo. Healy had to sign on the 25 Kiwai boys recruited by Orville at Kiwai Island at the north of the Fly. Plenty of mail arrived & lots of stores which we have been short. Wednesday Aug. 12. A few more mammals but nothing new. Plan to clear tomorrow morning for the middle Fly - probably a few miles above Eueville Junction (where the Strickland joins the Fly). Little in the way of news. Thursday, Aug. 13. Left the Orville Camp about 7.30. The River has been falling for several days so that plenty of mud banks are showing. I fancy however that it is rising again this morning. A couple of crocodiles shot at. The Orville people class the rock which I have called "conglomerate" in these pages as sandstone. It is however for the most part extremely soft, thinly divided, and clayey. A good sized crocodile said to be female just killed a few miles above the mouth of the Alice River. Was taken with the ship's dinghy to be skinned. I got a good series of pictures of it. Total length 2900. 11.30 Passed the mouth of the Alice River. The tribes around Orville are named Ka-wah, A-win and Oe aspidates, respectively from OK Teeki, Black Palmer, OK Mait,