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cassada snake, and two baby civet cats which drink milk from a syringe.  

     Mr. Forte, a Kakata lawyer who has a retaining fee from the Firestone Company, started out with us yesterday, but was unable to get carriers from town to town, and stayed yesterday in one of the first villages we came to. He got in about noon today, and we found him very useful in helping us bargain for animals and in explaining village gossip to us.  A noisy meeting was in progress most of the day in the palaver kitchen next door to us, and Mr. Forte said it was "devil palaver".  

     We were having dinner, while rain poured down outside, when to our great surprise Dr. Tengwall arrived with a small caravan.  He had promised to come up and spend the week end with us, but we had not looked for him so soon.  We were delighted to have him, or course, and Charlie has made plenty of good country chop, but we couldn't offer him the room we had expected him to have.  However, the Paramount Chief said he could have a room in his house, and we proffered him the hospitality of our little green bathroom.

April 12 - 

     We went for a long walk this morning, with Bill finding red horn flies, Dr. Tengwall finding orchids, and Bernice saw a deer.  Bobor went into the bush after it, but of course it had slipped away and there was no chance of catching it.  Bill used his derris root in a stream, and got about a dozen different species of small fish including Panchax, other Cichlids, catfish, electric catfish, and Moryridae and Protopterus.  

     We inquired about the possibility of going to the base of the Gibi Mountain and making camp there for one night.  both bill and Dr. T. are anxious to get into high bush and look for specimens at a higher altitude.  The Chief said, however, that it would be very difficult, as the mountain is sacred, a place of worship and of sacrifice, and no outsider has ever been allowed to ascend it.  He offered, however, to send for the Chief who lives in the villages at the foot of the mountain, and ask him if we might come.  We supposed that it was as good as settled, and wrote a note to George saying that we would stay here two days longer than we had planned to do.  Jimmie No. 2 is to take the letter in the morning.
   
    This is the night of the new moon, and the village held an impromptu dance.  It was mostly the men who danced, and the small boys, but a few women joined in the slow-moving line of jogging performers.  It was not a particularly interesting performance, except for the long shadows cast by the lamp.  The small boys were intrigued by their own shadows on the ground and did solo dances just to watch their own silhouettes.  

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     We went collecting in the morning and again in the evening, but none of the trails here lead to high bush.  It is all second growth for several miles in every direction.  We asked for the verdict on our mountain trip, and were turned down absolutely.  After