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species of frogs, including a dozen or more live Xenopus, another electric catfish, three kinds of snakes, a small green tree frog with red thighs and legs, another tree frog striped black and white. 
We photographed the Chief and his woman today, using color movie and Kodakrome in the Leica. He put on a fine embroidered robe for the occasion, and they both took it very seriously. 
The Zo came to town again, and again we sat cooped up in our house waiting for him to leave. Our boys were very serious about our not peeking out through the shutters, and even Mr. Paul told stories of mysterious poisonings when bush society laws had been violated. The Zo called on us, and we asked his permission to take his photograph but as he wanted a hundred pounds for that privilege we decided to omit it. 
A hunter sent in a whole wild boar today, and we bought one leg, which made very good stew. 
Rice is plentiful here, although one wonders why when one sees the rice farms. Forest land is cleared only to the extent of chopping down the trees, leaving stumps six feet high, and many logs, which are burned over. Then the rice is planted, and the little green shoots which are not beginning to come up, look lost in the blackened waste. The land can be used only two years, whether rice or cassava is planted and is then let lie fallow for seven years, when it has to be cleared and burned again. 
May 17 - 
Today we put up our Explorers Club and Woman Geographers flags, in honor of the gathering of clan chiefs, town chiefs, soldiers and hunters. Chiefs of five sections were here, and we presented then all with tobacco. Boima Quae has issued orders that no farm work is to be done for two days, that all men must go out and collect animals for us. A formal presentation of a live sheep, a bowl of rice and six eggs was made to us by the Chief. 
Our porters, inspired by the big palaver, set to with a will making basket cages, closely woven of palm fiber and tied with rattan. 
The German doctors arrived in the middle of the afternoon, full of news of new German victories in Europe, and confident that Hitler would shortly win the war. 
May 18 - 
We all set out in the morning for the neighboring town of Dambala, which was said to be an hour's walk away. We made three of it, with Bill and Mr. Paul entomologising along the way, and the doctors hunting. It was Dr. Kahl's first bush trip, and he was ready to shoot at anything. The day's catch was one monkey, one squirrel, and two touracou. One touracou was hit, but only grazed; he fell to the ground, and the boys picked him up still alive, with only a slight head wound. We are hoping that he will live, for he is a gorgeous big blue bird, with bright oranage and red beak, and really more like a South American macaw in size and color than any touracou I had ever seen before.