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practically no English. She ate a kola nut, washed her mouth out with water, and spat into the fire, and we were thankful that she did not offer us any food or drink.

Later Bill and I went ant hunting in the clearing in the forest where the snake society met yesterday. It was extremely peaceful, because no hangers on would follow us beyond the tabu sign. We were glad to find horned flies here - the first time we had seen them since our days in Sumatra.

The District Commissioner came for dinner, and we tried to put on a bit of style. Bill shaved for the first time in nearly a week, and put on long trousers. We opened our favorite ox joint stew, and had Schnapps before dinner. It was unfortunate that a large gray rat ran across the rafters just over the table, that clouds of flying termites besieged us all through the meal, and that Dunbar came to display a badly cut leg. However, we all had a good time, and afterwards went to watch the Grigri bush dance in the moonlight.

March 29 - Tetemah arrived with her girls shortly after breakfast and danced herself with them. Bill took movies of her, and she tried to show me some of the steps, but my attempts must have been ludicrous, to judge from the roars of the audience. This particular dance is the ritual of returning the girls to their parents after their three-year absence in the bush school.

Si went hunting again, and this time with better luck. He and his guide discovered a hornbill's nest, 150 feet up in a big tree. The native is a good climber, but this tree was so big around he couldn't get any grasp on it. He felled a smaller one that leaned against the big one as it fell, and climbed it. He had to back along the limb to where the nest was, and reach inside, after demolishing the outside wall with his cutlass. He seized the female by the beak, pulled her out, wrapped her in his shirt and tossed her down to Si. She came loose from her wrappings on the way down, and gave Si quite a battle while he tied her up and covered her head with a handkerchief. The boy then got the baby out, and brought that down. The baby hasn't a sign of a feather, a perfectly naked little thing with skin as thin as tissue paper. It is all beak and appetite, and eats anything that we pop down its throat.

Our boys and some of the town boys, having eventually grasped the object of our trip, brought us quantities of lizards, a few small birds, a big land snail the size of my two fists and dark red in color, and an assortment of frogs, large and small. The small ones Bill put in alcohol, the larger ones he hopes to keep alive.

The Commissioner dined with us again, Charley making some of his good palm oil chop for us. As this is our last evening here, Gibson the Sergeant, and Wiles, the Lieutenant, brought gifts of country cloth, the coarse blue and white cotton that the natives wear.