They took our bundles, and led us to a small village, where we met some
of our Marivaeanumu friends, who led us to their village and to our old
house. A young child called Maka was presented for presents, the father
telling Maka he called the child after him, because he was his friend
when we were here last. We have now the open country before us, and
expect no trouble in getting along. The natives are all unsettled at
present, and every man we meet is armed. I can see the country better to-
day than when here last week. Marivaeanumu is on a rise near the hills
of Eikiri and north-north-west from Sogeri. The latter district is in a
valley between the Owen Stanley Range and Mount Nisbet, to the south-west
of it. Eribagu would make a good station for the Sogeri district. This
place would be a suitable station being at the head of the plain that
reaches away to the Astrolabe on the one side, and up to Vetura and
Uakinumu on the other, stretching east by Mount Nisbet, and away east and
south, by the country at the back of Mapakapa.
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