I finally arrived at Aitape, the first port in Mandated Territory. When I arrived there, everybody was astonished. Nobody had ever come from Dutch New Guinea by land, and the first person I met was a German missionary, and he didn't... I... I was coming through the... through the woods and I came to his house and I stepped in and I found from the natives that his name was... I think was Father Paul, so I... and he was a German missionary, so I stepped inside. There, a white man suddenly appearing before this man, and I said in German, 'Grüß Gott, Vater Paul' and he was utterly astonished. The funniest part was he came from a little village that I knew quite well on the outskirts of Würzburg where I had been as a boy. Well, he hadn't seen another white person in quite some time. From there I went to Aitape and went to the District Officer and he said, 'Now, how did you get here?' And I said, 'Well, I came from... by land from Dutch New Guinea'. Again he couldn't believe it and then he said, 'You're trying to catch the steamer?' And I said, 'Yes, that's why I was rushing. I... I know that that steamer is supposed to be coming in a day or two'. And then he said, 'Oh, but I'm afraid you can't take that steamer'. And I said, 'Why not?' He said, 'Because our regulations say that there has to be a... anybody coming from any foreign place has to have a three weeks quarantine'. And... and... so finally we argued and he was the one who finally had the brilliant idea and said, 'Oh, we call... we include in the quarantine the three weeks that you... that it took you get from the Dutch border to Aitape', and so I was able to get my... onto the steamer.