Bukavu mailing of cont. 
attention up till now. In a considerable degree your expedition is 
pioneering this field of study in central Africa. Also we stop as 
we have time to sample this and that stream, for its shrimp population 
with^)// our fine meshed dip nets and seine. tJe are a bit at wrong 
season for taking them, the waters are too high, the natives ss^. We 
are at the tail end of the raii^y season; it's the dryer months that 
the^ concentrate in the deeper holes of the water courses and can theh 
be fished in quantity. So they say. We have practically no large 
rather 
shrimp, -but small ones, a/common well known African species from a 
number of streams, a few crabs, a number of small fish and insects. 
The best returns next to mites and related to things parasitic, have 
been with the small mammals, wild rats < and mice, and a couple of 
squirrels. The Belgian research lab at Bukavu (Costenaansville) made 
available to us one of their best trained Ck>ngolese taxidermists, 
and he is a wcaiderfully helpful boy,-oheerful and hard working,— 
speaks no English, and when he knows what's wanted needs no second 
telling. Each night he puts out a line of small traps, whidu we brought 
along, each morning he gathers than in. Sometimes we get nothing, 
sometimes one, occasionally 2-3, if the ants haven't gotten at them, 
before he has. The gongo ants, especially the am^ ants, make short 
work of everything edible. We also have an 8 gal. tank pretty well 
filled with fish from Lake Albert, at Kaser^, and Lake Edward at 
Ishango. At both these places there is a rather successful fresh-water 
fishery. Though we enjoyed a couple of meals of delicious fish at 
the latter place, including cold fried fish for breakfast l It tasted 
better than you think. 
