L. 28, P. 4. Things are now as noisy as they sometimes seems. Uripi has only two carriers from me and lay pig to a place a few miles down rivers can get at mine - perhaps. This means that I must leave some baggage and send back from Doulawa in it. - Which isn't quite so tall as at first sight it seems because I had planned to stay over a day at that place in order to look at the high country ESE of it. A couple of bats flying above the village clearing just at dusk, two large fat Pipistrellus. I'll try to sample them on the way but. Wed. Mar. 2. Got away from Uripi at 7.15, but had to leave 2 boxes of traps to be brought along tomorrow. Here's the day's high lights: Crest of Uripi range, 9.10 (720 m.); bottom of next valley at junction of two main streams, 10.55 (250 m.); fort of next hill, up to Doulawa 12.15 (1 hour for ford); Doulawa next house on ridge, 3 pm (790 metres). The road runs E at first then rises steeply to the first crest. The north side of the ridge from Uripi is exceedingly steep and slippery. On both sides, in the stream beds, highly contorted sedimentary rocks appear to underlie the agglomerates. The south side of Doulawa hill though very forested has now grass on the ridge up which the track for which made the climb in the early afternoon almost perfectly flat. And I was proud to understand too that Doulawa was far higher than its actually 2500 feet. The trouble is that we lost a whole different foot going down into the valley between Uripi + Doulawa. There are two villages here, one east, one west of the next home or apparently plenty of carriers. Tomorrow I shall give my traps a spell while I go and try out the high ground east of