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even built little bridges with hand-rails over creeks and swamps* 
It rained all afternoon, but Chancellor went out again at 
2.50 and stayed until nearly nine at night, reporting on his return 
that he had been all afternoon on bongo tracks* 
June 24 - 
Bill and I followed the new trail (he calls it Chancellor 
Boulevard ) , and collected insects all morning* Bill was delighted 
at finding horn flies and another species of Paussid* Again we 
had rain all afternoon and all night* 
June 25 - 
Bill, Louis and I took a ten-mile hike today, climbing steadily 
up the beautiful Banga trail, which is through "high bush" all the way. 
We came to an idyllic mountain stream, and sat down there for two or 
three hours while Bobo and Flomo fished. The stream is known as the 
Ewlni River, and the nearest town is Nellya* Bill was pleased at 
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and drank the cool water from a reddish-barker water vine, and had 
a thoroughly satisfactory day, returning about three o’clock to find 
that Charlie hud roasted the' francolin (shot last right by our Nimrod } 
to perfection* 
In the afternoon a small troup of Snake Dancers turned up, one 
man and two tiny girls about six and seven years o Id* They were all 
naked except for loin cloths. The girls wore a turban of country cloth, 
a string of beads around their waist, silver anklets and bead bracelets, 
and had their faces painted into a weird pattern with red and white 
clay. The man wore heavy anklets of bells which jangled as he danced. 
He set up a small plate of "medicine" on a stick, and consulted it 
at frequent intervals* The dance was the acrobatic one that we had 
heard so much about, and we enjoyed it, for the small, girls were 
marvelously supple, and he threw tl em around as callously as some of 
our adagio dancers do at home. A native orchestra of four drums 
added to the gaity of the afternoon. Our only worry was that the sky 
was overcast, and we are doubtful about the clarity of the photographs 
we took of the performance. 
June 26 - 
We left the plantation at quarter to nine, and it being a fairly 
good trail and all of us in good training by now, walked most of the 
way to its. S&lala* No truck was waiting, but Chancellor’s pick-up. was 
still there, so we got Into that and started along the road, meeting 
Philip and the sedan before we had gone more than a few miles. 
We stopped at Henry Cooper’s again, and he gave us the radio 
news of the past week, telling us of' France’s comp ete surrender to 
Germany and Italy* No mention yet of colonies, and we con tin. e to 
wonder whether or not we are going to Dakar as scheduled, ana just what 
the Senegalese status will be by the time we reach there* 
We ate cold chicken and biscuits and pickles, and drank the 
first cold beer we had had in six days, at the Cavalla Trao.-oig Co. 
in Kakata, and reached the plantation about four in the afternoon. 
