5. 27, P.11 plantation and across the Musgrave. Evidently someone was washing one of the creeks for went up as the water was discolored & very muddy. This cave entrance was almost Spirit-like and a scaffold had to be improvised to fit down the 12 feet to the floor of a narrow fissure beyond which a few bats could be seen flickering. Though small & narrow this cave is complex and one has to watch one's step. Of the two species of Rhinolophus (?) living there 4 of one and 13 of the other were secured. Three young were discarded. Saw a crab (in water), a frog, and swarms of midges down there in the darkness. The guide to both cave entrances was an old Koiari. He seemed to know all the twists & turns of the caves, but it is to be wondered how he ever found the hardihood to explore them originally assuming he had to use native torches to give light. I saw small tinders brought in in the evening. Fri. Feb. 12 Left Tarauere before light at a great hurry so as to get up the hill before the sun became too hot. Back at Baravari by 7.45. Boys all OK & camp in good order. Now going to set rat traps. A letter from Godson to say that Rend is coming by the "Royal Endeavour" due in Marecly about next week. Went out this p.m. along track of a prospector's survey. The country very steep and ridgy, forested, Gorro and Kanamoa all putting their traps out that way. A few trees have good-forking bat-holes. The drains all run away & from here but whether it flows east to the Musgrave or whether to the Salski I don't know. On the N. side the main valley of the Musgraves cuts us off very completely. There Teikenda are setting traps, all soft-traps are to be ties or vine sets for three days; thus