UPS AND DOWNS 
the village of Inomaka object to my collector shooting 
there, and refuse to permit him to collect butterflies, 
so the boy returned empty-handed. I am sending 
a few carriers to father, only three. I have been 
busy enclosing the end of the hut that Sam had 
previously hastily built up, as it was left open. One 
of my boys, Matu, left me yesterday and has not 
returned. 
“ July 13th.—Shall be glad of the shooters’ return, 
for I have had no meat for nine days, only sweet pota- 
toes. Last night I tried the lamp for moths and did 
not do badly. 
‘ July 14th.—Shooters return with nothing. Ow- 
bow arrived in the afternoon, but no carriers. Got 
190 moths to-night and busy pinning them to-day. 
“ July 15th.—Father arrived at 4.30 P.M.” 
AMPLIFIED NOTE ON THE JOURNEY TO YO-YA-KA 
For my journey to Yo-ya-ka I started from a point 
opposite the Kebea and went down past one of the 
Yuni-Yuni villages, situated on a spur of the moun- 
tains. We then made a long ascent of some 2000 
feet leading up to the same ridge as Mount Kebea 
where the village of Yo-ya-ka is situated. It was a 
most remarkable place, and it is difficult to convey 
exactly to those who have never seen it, the idea of 
what these Papuan ridges with their strangely perched 
villages are. They come up almost to a razor edge, 
relatively speaking, and certainly the free foot-way on 
that Yo-ya-ka ridge was no wider than fifteen inches. 
This narrow strip of foothold followed the main street 
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