Last evening there was another party - a send-off for us and for Mrs. LeBonne, who is going south by the next boat. Songs around the piano in the Joe Fisher house, supper of good eats (the Wenlock women are fine cooks), and some wine which Joe brought out from somewhere. There was a bottle of rum, too, and our cook and one of the older miners got well blotto. George did surprisingly well on the piano. Joe the cook, early in the evening, gave the best rendering of Service's "Dangerous Dan Macgrue" that I have ever heard. There was not a dry eye in the room. I even saw George poking a finder under his specs. Joe looked every inch the old actor as he delivered that piece, mulling his lines now and then and carrying on as only an ex- perienced actor can. Yesterday we made a tour of the Fisher Mine. Was amazed to see the amount of work that had been done, developing and stoping out the deep alluvial, and working the reef. The deep alluvial lies at a depth of about 90 feet. It yielded much rich gold in the earlier years but most of the known ground carrying profitable values has been worked out. Wash carrying less than 6 or 7 dwts. is not payable. The Fishers have thousands of tons carrying about 5 dwts. The mine was forced to close when population was evacuated in 1942. The owners returned two years ago and since then have used up most of their capital reconitioning and dewatering the mine. At present they are taking out some wash to meet expenses. Their plan is to work the reef when they can buy new pumping equipment. Water is a problem in the reefing proposition. The mine is family-owned, and managed by Joe (W.J.), who is a highly qualified mine manager, and is boning up for a mining engineer's diploma in his spare time. A highly intelligent, studious man of 29 years. Have collected about 60 spp. of plants in three days. Grass fires have burned over most of the country, leaving only small patches of dry grass in gullies, along the river frontage, and near a chain of lagoons across the river. In the river, big teatrees are in flower and attracting many birds and some flying-foxes (Pteropus scapulatus). Except for water rats, which seem unusually plentiful on the river, trapping has been poor. Jacking has been good for possums. One of the best mammals from the camp was a small mouse, Leggadina, of an Australian group, which Geoff captured while turn- ing over a sheet of bark in an old camp in search for insects. Two grassland Melomys were the only other rodents caught. Most of the mammals collected in the area were taken by Van before our arrival. Je secured several red Kangaroos, specimens of an animal which is called grey kangaroo here but which George thinks is a walaroo. Other interesting spp. include a series of x 7 possums. A notable increase in number of spp. of Eucalyptus takes place as one progresses south on the Peninsula. In all the country north of the Jardine I saw but 6 spp. - a true bloodwood, a bastard bloodwood (at Galloway), Moreton Bay ash, poplar gum, box (Red Island Point), and messmate. About Wenlock I have seen 2 bloodwood spp., a bastard bloodwood, Moreton Bay ash (not common), cabbage gum, poplar gum, box, a gum- topped box, messmate, and an ironbark. Thursday, July 29: Most of the population of the camp turned out to see us off when we left Wenlock at 1:10 - Hugh's truck pulling a well-laden trailer and lurching along on 5 cylinders. After a few miles, and the changing of two spark plugs, we made steady but slow progress. The road not too bad except for some steep creeks, but the driver going very cautiously and nursing his truck. Reached the Archer River after six o'clock - in time for a few traps (53) to be put out.