L. 25, P. 21 Sun. Jan. 9. A blustery morning with strong NW wind and driving rain. Rain cleared later. Left Mibu at 11.10 a.m. Mon. Jan. 10 Arrived Orokolo 11.10. Left at 3.30 with Mr. Stewtley on board. He is a London Missionary Society man, a young fellow who is going in to Moresby to marry an English girl who has come out for the purpose. They are going for their honeymoon to Rona Falls (I think I should give them some traps). Reached Araimiri about 5 o'clock. Anchored. We have to pick up another passenger here, a Mrs. Williams also going to Moresby. Tues. Jan. 11. A very quiet night at anchor. The place where we last stayed, Orokolo, is on the open beach in a very shallow bay. Entirely fronted with coconuts, but with quite low hills just behind about half a mile back, hills only a hundred feet high, I should say. Beyond, Stewtley says, it gets flattish before the big hills are reached. Apparently rainforest. A couple of miles to the SE is the mouth of the Vailala River with a huge fan of muddy water extending out from its mouth. At Araimiri, a coconut plantation, the immediate front is flat, rainforest country, with a range of rather rugged-appearing hills behind which runs nearly due south and fronts on the sea to the E of our present anchorage where it forms a bluff headland. These hills appear to reach a couple of hundred feet. All dense covered with rain forest. Bigger hills (2 - 3000 feet) are visible behind. 11.15 a.m. Approaching the flats about the mouth of the Lakekamu River. A fairly distinct point to the NW behind which we have left the village Araimiri and the Vailala. The point composed of low rugged hills, mostly in second growth, and more or less detached from the mountains farther inside. The main mass of mountains reaching perhaps 4000 feet, lies now about [illegible] or NE of us, and forms chief divide between the Vailala and Lakekamu River systems. The coastline from the point just mentioned this side of Araimiri and the mouth of the Lakekamu is lined with an almost unbroken fringe of coconut groves and villages half hidden amongst them. All is apparently rainforest country. Dewdley's (not Stewtley, as written above) boys recognize among mammal skins I have out drying on deck the following: Uromys, Petaurus, Rattus, bandicoot. They do not know Lacylopsila and Macropus bruni. We got away from Araimiri at about 6 p.m. owing to delay caused by the loading of three bullocks. A big mass of mountain, cloud-topped between E and NE. Wed, Jan 12. A guba struck us at one in the morning and we tossed about all over the shop. The storm gave place to strong NW over a heavy swell from SW, making a cross sea which lasted until cut off by Cape Suckling. This morning course about E. Yule Island and behind it Mt. Yule passed about 9 o'clock. Country eastwards including Yule Island itself very dry and without forest. Low scrub or grass-covered hills a few hundred feet high just back from the coast. Cape Suckling low and flat, arid, backed by same low hills. Dry continues at least to the mouth of the Aroa River. Stopped from about ten a.m. to 5 p.m. at Hisiu, west of mouth of Aroa River unloading timber. Made Redscar Head and anchored in its shelter (SE of it) for the night. The headland, Varivari Island and the Dareba Hill (500 ft.) close by with the intervening lowlands all dry country like that of Yule Island and Port Moresby. Thur. Jan. 13. Left anchorage abt 5.30. Wea. fair. Reached Moresby at 8.45 a.m. Rest of day settling down.