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doing judo-like kicking & using wooden sticks or knives at incredible speeds and with amazing synchrony.

Apparently it derives from fact that Portuguese wouldn't let the slaves carry arms or defend themselves & they developed this [[strikethrough]] as [[/strikethrough]] dance as a self-defense strategy.

After back at hotel, tried to frame out rest of week etc would be organized since we discovered that there was a holiday on Tues 15 November.

Jim called Claudio to discuss organization & the talk went on so long that I nearly fell asleep.

It continues to take an incredible amt. of time to organize any thing.

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11 November
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12 November
Went to airport to pick up Mitch Busch ____ @ 0800.
Slightly late, & then some touchy moments getting him through customs. Jim went into customs area to talk to "jefe" of customs which speeded things up.

The customs peon was looking at Mitch's blow pipe, drugs & especially his new sneakers.
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11 November:
Slept latish & went to see Sr. Philipe Berant on his estate. Berant is of French descent, lived in Brazil over 30 years.

Bird fancier who is old friend of Ripley & is holding some GLTs and some [[underlined]] L.r. chysopygus [[/underlined]] — illegally.