At Sanamere we will probably be joined by Jack Cupid, linesman in charge of the Cape York section of the telegraph line. He and his wife were over to visit us yesterday afternoon. Cupid is no kewpie. As rugged an individual as one could meet in a month of travel in the backblocks. Collects native orchids, and at one time collected and reared butterflies for a dealer in the south. His insects were collected on the Atherton Tableland, where he was employed by the Eacham Shire. When, for some years ago, Kajewski climbed Bellenden-Ker to get seeds of Weston's mangosteen, Cupid was loaned to him as guide. They climbed the mountain from the west, and found the going easy. Thursday May 20: We are camped beside the telegraph line about a mile north of the Jardine River and 1¼ miles south of Sanamere Lagoon. Sanamere, when we saw it, looked unpromising for a camp site. Too much uniformity in habit for a center for several days, and tent poles would be hard to find in the stunted timber around the lake. Sanamere, about a mile long and wide, could be called a lake. It lies in miserable country. As seen in the dull, drizzling weather we are having lately it looks austere as an alpine lake. I collected on its shores yesterday. About 50 yards from the edge of the water the low tree (Banksia, Grevillea glauc a, Acacia and Melaleuca) and shrub scrub of the surrounding ridges tails off into a very thin stand of knew high Thryptomene, Agonis and Restionaceae occupying still sloping grey sand wet with an even film of seepage water. Abruptly, when the lake is reached, the vegetation changes. Gahnia, Agonis and Melaleuca leucadendron var., growing on slightly hummocked peaty ground, form a dense outer marginal thicket well over head high. Pitcher plants scramble in these thickets, while in the Thryptomene-Restionaceae community the same sp. (Nepenthes) is an upright shrub less than a foot high, and unbranched. In deeper water is a zone of sedges (all sterile) in which perhaps the major sp. is a Scirpus or Lepironia. No water lilies out in the lake. Not a water bird seen. Saturday May 22: Broke camp at the Jardine at 8:15 and arrived Red Island Point about 11 o'clock. A showery morning, and we were wet and cold, sitting on top of the truck, until the sun broke through the clouds. Was kept very busy with plants at the Jardine camp. The most productive habitats were a sandy messmate and bloodwood ridge (25 ft. contour on the military map, but most likely at least double that height) between camp and Sanamere, and wet or marshy depressions on the river plain. The messmate-bloodwood savanna-forest has an interesting shrubby undergrowth; quite dense where Melaleuca and Grevillea and Banksia, and the "Black teatree" elements tend to be dominant on the more barren sand. No mammals were taken in traps by George and his boy. The only mammal taken was a female sand wallaby shot at night by George. I can not agree that the locality is a blank spot for mammals. In the old days, which ended not so long ago, the blacks had a regular camp on the river only a mile from where we camped. So far on this trip we have had meagre results everywhere in trapping for mammals in savanna-forest. I think there must be small mammals in the savanna-forest, and some way of getting them. Good collections of dragonflies and spiders were got by Geoff.