L 23 p. 16 Cleveland for the night in mid-river at about 5.30 p.m. Engine running a bit hot. Four out of the six female fruit bats each with one embryo. Sat Oct 3 Away at 6.20. A definite tide here, as I saw the ship swing to the change of flow just before dawn. 6.30 Passing D'Albertis Island Vegetables all along here heavy forest. Bat's only a couple of feet above water level. 7.30 In middle of Fairfax Islands. 8.10 Pand Inner and Sturt Islands, the last of the Fairfax islands aggregate. There are three high banks (15-20 feet) on the north shore (which we are following) one even with the middle of Sturt; another opposite the lower tip, and a third on a point about 2 miles. All three have large clumps of bamboo on them. We watched their moving at the middle place and cut exploratory tracks in various directions. I went up-stream as far as the first bluff near which is a gently rising forested ridge going up to about 100 feet. After lunch took Brown & Rand to see it. We may camp there, but decided first to look at the third and lowest place. When we got back to the boat place found the tide had risen about 8 feet in an hour and in the shallower parts of the river (the starboard side) I can come up as a tree. Next day about 3 o'clock we moved down to the new place + I cut straight in while B & R went left & right respectively. Hard reed + another for a couple of hundred yards, then gently rising ground to a ridge. The inflow of tide continued till a quarter to five when we began to warp amid our moving. We discussed the possibilities of the several places and eventually decided upon the one I had found in the morning. Tomorrow we shall go up there and start to get camp set up. The location is good, right on the river and a short story here day & night. We shall probably dismiss the "Rand St" the day after tomorrow. Sun Oct 4 Started clearly for camp on highest point, even with the middle of Sturt Island. A very valuable find by a boy sent to cut wood -- a new mouse, probably of a new form. The boy's tale is that as he looked about he saw an