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practically no English, She ate a kola nut, washed her mouth out 
with water, and. spat into the fire, and we were thankful chat sue 
did not offer us any food or drink. 
Later Bill and I went ant hunting in the clearing in the 
forest where the snake society met yesterday, it was extremely 
peaceful, because no kbngers on would follow us beyond the tabu 
sign. We were glad to find horned flies here - the i ir st time 
we had seen them since our days in Sumatra, 
The District Commissioner came for dinner, ana we tried to put 
on a bit of style. Bill shaved for the first time in nearly a 
week, and put on long trousers. We opened our favorite ox^ joint 
stew, and had Schnapps before dinner. It was unfortunate that 
a large gray rat ran across the rafters just over the taule, cLa^ 
clouds of flyging termites besieged us all through the meal, and 
that Dunbar came to display a badly cut .leg. However, we all had 
a good time, and afterwards went to watch the Gngri bush dance in 
the moonlight, 
March 29 - Tetemah arrived with her girls shortly after breakfast 
and danced herself with them. Bill took movies of her, aitu o r 
tried to show me some of the steps, but my attempts must have been 
ludicrous, to judge from the roars of the audience. This particular 
dance is the ritual of returning the girls to their parents after 
their three -year absence in the bush school. 
Si went hunting again, and this time with better luck. He 
and his guide discovered a hornbill * s nest, 150 feet up m a big 
tree. The native is a good climber, but this tree was so big 
around he couldn't get any grasp on it. He felled a smaller one 
that leaned against the big one as it fell, and climbed I u, e 
had to back along the limb to where the nest was, and reach in- 
s'* de, after demolishing the outside wall with his cutlass. He 
seized the female by the beak, pulled her out, wrapped her in his 
shirt and tossed her down to Si. She came loose from^her wrappings 
on the way down, and gave Si quite a cattle while iie tied -..’-Cj. up 
and covered her head with a handkerchief. The boy ohen got che 
babv out, and brought that down. The baby hasn't a sign of a 
feather, a perfectly naked little thing with .skin as thin as tissue 
paper. It is all beak and appetite, and eats anything that we pop 
down its throat. 
Our boys and some of the town boys, having eventually grasped 
the object of our trip, brought us quantifies of lizards, a few small 
birds, a big land snail the size of my two fists and dark red in 
color, and an assortment of frogs, large and small. The small ones 
Bill put in alcohol, the larger ones he hopes to keep alive. 
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The Commissioner dined with us again, Charley making some of his I 
good calm oil chop for us. As this is our last evening here, Gibson I 
the Sergeant, and Wiles, the Lieutenant, brought gifts of country 
cloth, the coarse blue and white cotton that the natives wear. 
