Wednesday
September 15
1926

The transport returned from upper Head Camp with a note at nine thirty, from Matt and one from Posthumus who is there now. He ways [sic, = says] high water kept him from sending the prows back to bring us up but as soon as the water is low he will send two. Matt’s note said everything was going lovely and that the Pygmies were anxious to be measured and photographed. He said it wouldn’t be long until we were up there. Posthumus also said the trail is ready so I suppose we will leave as soon as we get to Head Camp or with the next batch of carriers going up. Matt also enclosed a letter which he had written. The transport was going right down so I sent two more copies of the telegram in case the other went astray and to make sure that it would reach A.C. all right. One letter was addressed to Prince and the other to Prince to be opened by Korteman if Prince was on his way up. I enclosed a letter to Korteman in which I told him I had been informed he was to censor all our telegrams before they were sent and told him I was given premission [sic] to send telegrams from the Head Office at Bandoeng and that no censorship was provided in that. I also suggested that he become familiar with the penalties for tampering with Radio Messages under the international code agreement by all {F3.77} nations and warned him that if he changed or held up the telegrams I would hold him personally responsible and would push the case before the proper authorities in Java and the international board governing such matters when I returned. I also said I was goind [sic] to talk to Posthumus about it when I saw him above and tell him the same thing. I said I had nothing against Korteman and knew he was acting under orders but warned him what I would have to do in case he tampered with any of the press messages I sent. I also informed him that there was nothing untrue in anything I was sending out and I was not ashamed of the telegrams but could see no legal reason for him to see them before they were sent. I told him he had always been fair in his dealings with us and I didn’t want to think that he would do anything like I heard he was intending to do. Navy Sergeant informed Prince that he was going to get eight days punichment [sic] for not showing the press message I sent Prince to send from Motor Camp to Korteman. Prince said there was an order that all of our messages have to be O.K.’d by Korteman before they can be sent. That’s nice people. The canoes had a thrill coming down for the water was comparitively [sic] high yet. One canoe turned over but the Dyaks rescued the soldier in it. Didn’t get much details for they left immediately by mail was ready. [sic] Dick shot some pictures of the baby kangaroo, the birds of paradise, crown pigeon heads, etc., and then decided that the kangaroo couldn’t live for no one would bother to take care of it while we are inside[,] so killed it. [sic] He later got a good shot at a large lizard right in front of camp and as I write is busy skinning it. The motor transport is due in M.C. Today and the returning morning should leave tomorrow. That would get it into B.C. Friday September 17 if the transport from A.C. to B.C. [Albatross Camp to Batavia Camp] has just left it will be four or five or six days before it will get to A.C. so at [the] latest the news of finding the pygmies will get out (if it isn’t censored or kept off the wire by Kortman [sic]) and to the world about September 23. It might be a {F3.78} few days sooner. Hope so.