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search of these.  We located them by their call but when under the trees they were in our movements frightened them away.  I saw [[strikethrough]] the [[/strikethrough]] a brown [[symbol: female]] going hand & foot swinging thru the trees at a fast rate too fast for our running to overtake.  The black [[symbol: male]] I saw later at 150 yds. but he [[strikethough]] ge [[/strikethrough]] bolted out of sight in a few seconds before a shot could be obtained.  No more were seen or heard, so we returned at 10 A.M. to camp.  Just below our camp is [[strikethrough]] the [[/strikethrough]] a clearing in the forest where a Liso family have under cultivation potatoes.  Later corn or maize is planted in these same fields & forms their chief crop.
[[circled]] 5 [[/circled]] Today I was lucky & shot a black [[symbol: male]] gibbon which I discovered clinging motionless to an upright tree branch in a leafy tree in the dense forest below camp.  There was an other gibbon with this one but it got away unarmed as I was

Transcription Notes:
- "unarmed" may be "unharmed" - the transcriber's "&" were "+" in the original documents