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To Village
L.23, P.3.
Diagram of Lake Daricwka
swamps.
grass lands
Ti tree areas
Junk.
--- = Course taken by the "Ronald S"
From W to E is probably
3 miles.
The lake is fairly uniform depth
except near its shores - from 9 to 12 feet.
Thursday, Aug. 21, 1936. Fair night, went Jacke[ing] with light last night.
No luck. This morning took Ada and the doggy and we crossed to the
sawanna north of [illegible] and went over to the Tea-tree sawanna looking
for wallaby. Plenty of tracks & dancing places but no animals
head it often, the grass very thick.
In traps 3 [illegible] of Amelomya and a Rattus brevipinnis.
Heely went in a native canoe with one of his police to visit
the village west of here. He says it is rather a poor example
of its kind - about 10 houses. He brought back a couple of
Amelmys muriculis. About 6 a whole troop of Sukis came
in with 11 Phalanger mureulatus which they had caught
somewhere near the river. They had skinned & some have
no skulls for those.
Sat. Aug. 27. Traps yielded 2 small Melomys and a small
from Phalacropis like that of Peltoni Tuntori (L.17, P.14)
Every why busy skinning the Phalangere's tonight in last
night. High wind every morning now. Another party reached
Daric at 2, a.m.