Thursday
September 23
1926

Spent most of the day getting our supplies and equipment which we are leaving behind in suitable shape so that it can go up by carriers. Other things which we can leave we are leaving here. The soldier informs me that there will be a guard here as long as anything remains and when the camp is abandoned everything will be taken up should the water fall sufficiently. The carriers arrived late in the afternoon with a note from Dick. He had a tough trip, it is a hard one he says (one day and the trail is no trail at all[)]. It is up and down and up and down all the way. Dick had to carry the tripod when he left because the others had gone off and left it and he said that it was a big mistake for one needs both hands all of the time. He managed it until about one hour out of Head Camp and then turned it over to a Dyak putting some more of the Dyak[’]s load around on others. He also said Head Camp was nice, good swimming, no mosquitoes and fine drinking water. I was to come up tomorrow with the carriers. Of course if the water went down we would go by prow, but it rained in the evening and it doesn’t look “a like” that is possible. One of the Dyaks on the return from Head Camp went down with the fever and had to be left behind with one man to watch over him. He is very sick and a prow with eight or nine sturdy Dyaks put out just before dark to go up and bring him down. The river is high and it is a dangerous trip, but the Dyaks never leave anyone suffer without help no matter what risk is involved. Of course the canoe was unloaded but it will be a hard dangerous trip neverthe less [sic], against the raging current and in the dark. At eleven they returned with the sick man. He was immediately given a big dose of quinine. I too was not feeling any too peppy for some unknown reason and from the symtpons [sic] of headache together with that listless feeling I thot it might be the fever coming on so {F3.82} I was not especially pleased in as much as I was due to go up tomorrow and it appeared a certainty it would be overland and not by prow. When I had what resembled a slight chill in the evening I took ten pills. Five is the regular dose for one sitting and five in the evening. I wanted to make it strong for I didn’t want to be delayed here. Fever generally breaks out when one leaves the mosquitoe [sic] country and there have been many cases of it up here, both among the soldiers and dyaks and convicts.