Bukavu mailing of 5/lU/55» cont. 
5 
These natives in their way run to as many characters and types as you 
will meet on a New York street, jolly, seidous, haughty, proud, happy 
go-lucky, fat, thin, and crippled (tho few of the latter). Though in 
costume they come mostly on bikes, some in autos, others UM afoot. 
The participating black population, several hundred it appeared, took 
the day off frcxn work, went to dance place in costmes scanty to be 
true, but colorful, like so many Shriners to a Shrine convention parade, 
and in much the same spirit , -holiday getogether of the tribe and clan. 
The present chief is fat and portly, much like a colored Harlem politician, 
with horn rimmed glasses. We argued whether he wore them because he 
needed them or as some badge of office, or something that put him in 
or with the «white« intellectual class j anyway the glasses looked out 
of place in a tribal dance of this sort. shall assemble pictures 
at S.I. (Smithsonian) as soon after our return as possible, but it 
will be a little time yet. Hope you can be patient a while longer 
for some of the pictorial results. 
The afternoon after the dance and lunch in Paulis headed for 
Hiangara, a stop on way to next main objective, Oangala-na-Bodio , 
the elephant training center, this was an afternoon of April 28th. 
Hiangara is smaller, cheaper edition of Paulis, small country town 
as compared with larger center, and with one, 5th rate hotel I should 
say. It was and is for all the world like a (way) back country hotel, 
or lodging place in Brazil, and curiously enough here, run by a 
Portugese, and his family} everything was crude to say the least. 
This would be another stop I should skip by to get on to next place. 
