L.28. P.6. Thur. Mar.4. Gave the boys a spell while I took my polar by a two loads to try to find accessible high ground on the mountains E of us. We were out ten hours, the last four in torrents of rain. The road went endlessly up-down ridges beyond the village E of us until we reached the main divide between the Brown & Goldie river systems. Then it went up at an angle of 40° with nearly precipitous slopes on either side. From 3500 feet it was practically a knife-edge but steeply tilted. A firm covered, very small flat was reached at noon, altitude 4900 feet. We were popped in & could see little or nothing but I found that we were still on a spur where crest was too jagged & irregular to be at one parallel. A few days (while I can't spare) of road metering would be needed. The mist lifted for a few minutes - just long enough for me to get bearings on Doriava - Naro, then we went down. Leeches abundant on top of ridge. Giant acacia at 3000 feet. Boy cut his leg with bush-knife but it's large it is on the skin not deepens. I tied it up with moss leaves & treated it at camp. Down at the village they gave me some boiled sweet potatoes & didn't they taste good! And then have needed to get back to the rest house. Plenty of sugarcane & bananas in the farmlands here. Leaving tomorrow for Naro. Fri. Mar.5. Left Doriava at 7.15 - steeply down to stream at 520 meters; then a steep pull up, interrupted once only by a small stream to an ultimate crest reached at (9.20 - 1040 meters or about 3400 feet, - the tree divide between the Brown and Goldie rivers. There is a steep descent followed by a gradual fall, follow- ing the course of the river to the Naro rest house; down at 6.15pm. Reached just at noon. All is in heavy mist. There seem to be plenty of leeches. Some Macari boys who lived there down to look at