Field journal : Archbold 1936 New Guinea Exp. February 27, 1936 to July 8, 1937
Page 571
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a nice old chap, tho we can hardly be L.28. P.8. said to understand each other, and she brought me pineapples & tomatoes as lib. These people though still Karia are very different from the sophisticated crowd around Itki, whom I tried so hard to persuade to carry for me a month ago. I asked for six boys this evening to go through to Kagi and 8 jumped forward - all husky lads so I left them to settle among themselves, where they'll be left out. Sun. Jun. 7. Well, it has been a hectic day all right. We left Enroia at 7 a.m. - down to a lake (620 metres); a steep climb up a ridge side and continued along its crest to a clearing reached at 9.15 (1300 m.), named Tabunuma. Wonderful view where cloud did not interfere. I found the people had laid out quantities of tree, sweet potatoes, watermelons, pawpaws & pineapples neatly on beds of leaves - like a market place - in anticipation of our arrival. I brought a few pawpaws for the boys to eat at once, but told the inhabitants that I could only buy their food if they would bring it on with us to Kagi. Nothing left, they did. Well, there was Efogi down below us on the side of a huge basin-like valley with lesser valleys fluting its sides like rays - and across the way, seeming on a level with us was Kagi our destination; but with this difference, we at 4200 feet were on a ridge. But Kagi (on a small ridge) nestled among huge hills that loomed around it & rose above it for at least another 3000 feet. We got down to Efogi at 11.30 (1125 m.); then due to one river (860m), over a ridge (970m) & then go to the Efogi R. (860m); Then a huge climb brought us to Tabunuma (1300 m.); a sharp dip to a lake at 1140 m., and another substantial climb to Kagi our destination, (1450 m.). Approx. 4700 feet then is our open air verandah for about a week to come. The Ivoria village policemen came along with us, and