L.23, P.24. We set away at 9 o'clock. The water was forced the propeller a number of times & we did not get away for the mouth of the canal until just 12 o'clock. Everill Junction was passed at 12.45. At 2.30 about 10 miles below the mouths of the Stocklaw (Everill Junction) we found lots of fruit bats laying in the low trees then fringing the river. We stopped & collected some. Some higher tumbled into the river. Stopped by a bank about 8 feet above water level - a dryish place with grass & bamboo. But about 40 traps set out there. Mosquitoes fierce. Brown picked up some plants. BOTH this bank and the trees where the bats were collected are on the left shore of the river. Friday Oct. 2. Put the boys ashore to pick up traps early (not in truth), & set away to an early start at 6 o'clock. Ellengowan Island point 8.30 a.m. Capt "Dredge" sketch maps (see laym). 8.45. Fair sized Suki camp on left bank about a month up creek about 40-50 feet wide. Tried to photograph. Home within sides; not right down to ground. Canoes came out & tried to trade bird of paradise plumes. 11.15 Just below Cassowary Island a large tad root in fresh water mangrove. We over ashore & put in of them. Staged they sank very quickly, did quite well to stay of foot after shot down for more than about half a minute. 12.45 Large village on high wet bank on right bank I run. Village about 18 years old judging by age of coconut there. Not many people. We gave a try to canoe & who wanted to go a few miles. 1.15 Passing Trinal Island (on left). 1.30 Another settlement several houses, two very large, of which one had a yacht shaped roof with curved pitching. That village also on high bank. Tidal island visible ahead. 2 p.m. Passed between end of Tidal Island. 3 P.M. Passing Alligali Island. 3.15 a second island. Thousands of flying foxes in Alligali Island.