Sunday, February 22 A rainy day spent in gathering information from various sources. Worrall the most useful source. Most of the active members of the community have not been in the district very long and cannot give much information useful to us. The old timers are mostly very old, and inclined to romance. Population of the town now about 300. In the good old days of the Palmermining boom the town boasted 36 pubs, packed in about quarter of a mile of main street; now there are but three in what is left of the town. A Lutheran missionary, Mr. Schwarz, now over 80 years old, gave me very useful information on the extensive sand dune area between Cape Bedford and Lookout Point. Coming from Germany at the age of 19, he spent over 60 years as a missionary to the blacks at Cape Bedford Mission. A panicky government interned the old man in World War II, and shifted all his blacks to central Queensland, where they died like flies in the colder climate. Swartz recommends the lower MâIvor river as a suitable place for a camp in the sand dunes. No road. Would have to go there by boat.