Bukavu mailing of 5/lii/S5, cont. 
black and white film,— ^possible for color movie film, I could have 
wept. It was the picture of a life time, and I don’t believe if we 
stayed a month would we get the same chance again with good lighting. 
Such is life, — Ruindi (spelled variously Ruindi or Rwindi) is as we 
say a must especially when you can get the privileges accorded us. 
We got scsae good lyena shots, and a hippo way up on land. They’ve 
taken to foraging ashore} there aire so many in the water, there’s not 
enough in way of water plants to go around and so they make use of the 
tall grass ashore. Still I want to see tlrni eating it. We were told 
on good authority that they do. Everybody wanted another day here in 
Rwindi, I too, but we iiad a Wat us i dance date ccsning up in Kisenyi 
on the 12th May and wanted to get some lava samples enroute froa the 
1953 eruption of Mt, Ryarauragira. The Congo lavas are different in 
ch®nical cceiposition from those elsewhere in the world anOThe Museum 
geologist was anxious for specimens of than. To get them we needed a 
special permit, but this was awaiting us at the chief warden's office, 
arranged again by Dr. van Straelen from Brussels. He furnished us 
a native guide. Otherwise we would never have found the lava flow 
back in the woods a couple of miles, well off the main road. Several 
other lava flows the far side of Kisenyi we shall sample on the 13th 
on the way to Sukavu, This is being written on the morning of the 
12th in the 3ugoyi Guest House in Kisei:^, the first place for weeks 
where we have electric light available for 2h hrs, a day. Kisenyi and 
Goma near by are at the north end of Lake Kivu, in a valley ringed 
on the north with volcanoes. Last evening we drove to a near by hill top 
to see the firey crater of one of the active ones in the far distance. 
