with big heads and jaws strong enough to draw blood when they bit - 
which they did frequently - white callows looking like ghosts of the 
termites they were to become, pupae and eggs * These are fungus - 
growing termites, and there were plentiful fungus gardens, looking 
like soft whitish sponges in tjie red earth of the mound itself. 
The oueen cell was s. big hard oval of mud, which when opened showed d 
the queen, the male, the workers and aimPB H± x iiitaBaaariE±gs two species ^ 
of termitophiles* Tb s e queen was about four inches long, all abdomen 
with a head a quarter of an inch long, and. she was simply a ^ naked 
palpitating egg machine, with the eggs still, exuding in a milky flow, 
Boima Quae Bill calls him Boy McCoy) called £n the afternoon. 
Bill gave him a carton of cigarettes, and a box of matches, and 
offered him a drink. He refused, being a good Moslem, ^ anything but 
beer, but he topsed off a quart bottle of that in two minutes, and 
then, without wiping the foam from his lips (it looked like a white 
mustache) took his leave, saying “Excuse me, I mupt go to pray. 
About five o’clock ?/e heard a beating of drums and chanting, 
and walked through the village thinking perhaps to see a native dance. 
The head of the local branch of the Poro was in town, a rather hand- 
some Zo of about forty years, wearing a peaked cap, a grass skirt over 
khaki shorts, and tastefully decorated with cowrie shells and an 
assortment of animal skins — potto, monkey and civet pr edominat ing , 
This is the time of year when the women's bush is ended and the men's 
bush beginning, and as the rule of the town is tranf erred from the 
men to the women certain ceremonies must be oo served, ^ -the Zo gave 
the women, who were all lined un on one sicie oi ohe village square, 
a loud harangue, and was answered with jeers, hand-clapping and 
evidently obscene remarks,. However, as he progressed the women, 
melted away until only the men were left, and our own boys hustled me M 
off to our" res£ house. Once we were all inside the doors and windows™ 
were closed and bolted, and we sat in the stifling heat for about an 
hour while mysterious sounds of men running and shouting were to be 
heard outside, 
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In the early afternoon we collected some fish by putting 
derris in a nearby stream, and got among othqr things a live catfish 
which, as Flomo explained, is the "fish that shake s you. Bill put 
in a fish can with other fish, who were electrocuted by it, Feme t eh 
cooked palm butter chop for us again, this time we provided the chicken 
Most of the evening there was a big palaver, with nearby chiefs 
and village headmen gathered round, Boima Quae has sent out a call 
to all hunters to go out and. get us animals, and we were quite 
encouraged when Bobo told us that at one time, when the Government 
ordered monkeys to be collected, the people here caught 3578 alive! 
He said they cut off most of the branches of trees where the monkeys 
lived, isolating them in the topmost branches and then felling the 
tree. It sounded plausible, although we had some doubts as to the 
actual number captured, 
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May 16 - All the trails from the village lead to good hush, and we 
walked along one verv pretty shady trail this morning, collecting 
insects. Bill was pleased to find Diopsidae fairly plentiful, and 
he also got six species of tiger beetles. My great thrill was 
getting close enough to a monkey in a tree to photograph it. 
Our own boys went out today and brought in five termite oueen 
cells for Bill to dissect. The village childrep. brought in five 
