Field journal : Archbold 1936 New Guinea Exp. February 27, 1936 to July 8, 1937
Page 561
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L. 28, P. 3. From Agiama 10 a.m. (575 m.); creek (460 m.); high, (600 m.); small creek, 11.15 a.m. (510 m.); high ridge, 11.50 (620 m.); Liberí creek; 12.30 (330 m.); Edetakabuna 1 p.m., village policeman Uriqi (400 m). Such are the ups and downs of one day, and although trying to get to the hills, we are actually a few meters lower than when we started. The road runs in fact quite level distance but from me or two ridge, it is possible to get a glimpse of hills + I took a few bearings with the prismatic while Bill Adamson insisted upon lending me. The Korias are indifferent carriers, they take too many steps, but they have me put truck for double loads (pole birds); each boy carries a light stick, shoulder high, with a very small crutch at the top, which they slip under the pole to support the load when they want a short rest. Liberí creek flows through a deep valley amidst huge aglomaic boulders. It is small but today was easy to cross. The village of Edetakabuna (policeman Uriqi) is just up the hill a couple of hundred feet above the crossing. A gray coccus with sting dorsal line was brought in just after we arrived. It had been carried away from the rocks of Liberí mountain by a dog with a dog. There is at least one cat here — of the prevailing TortoiseShell here. I served out a meal of rice + fried fish for the carriers (four women, three small boys + two babies in arms included). Some (the adults) chose wheat; others eats. My rate of pay is 1 shell or if sticks of tobacco. Then they all said Good bye & called off back to their village.