GOOD-BYE TO DINAWA 
sent back. On September 23, at 9 a.M., we started 
for Ekeikei. At twelve we halted at Madui, where 
the natives wished to sleep; but this, of course, was 
out of the question, so we pushed on. As far as 
Madui the drought still prevailed. After that point 
it was damp, but not wet. In one way the drought 
had served us well, for all the leeches had died and 
we were saved from that pest; but the scrub-itch 
was worse than ever, especially after we passed 
Kkeikei. We reached the Bamboo Camp after a hard 
march at 7 P.M., and both we and our followers were 
thoroughly tired out. Next day we went by way of 
Kkeikei to Epa, when our friends from Ibala went 
back, having performed their undertaking. We found 
Kipa terribly parched, and it presented a very different 
aspect to that which we had seen three months 
earlier. ‘Thence we proceeded to Oofafa, where our 
old acquaintance Mavai saw us through with our 
impedimenta. We travelled by boat to Pokama, where 
we got on board a small cutter and set sail for Port 
Moresby. Unfortunately, we encountered very heavy 
weather, and had to beat up to our destination under 
a lashing south-east monsoon. We shipped many 
seas, and thus lost our fine herbarium, all the plants 
in which were blackened by salt water. ‘This was an 
irreparable misfortune, and most disheartening after . 
the tremendous trouble we had taken in collecting 
and drying our specimens of Papuan flora. 
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