Continuation of May lh/^$ letter 
suitable traps for deep water work— not too deep, for they 0 say near 
the bottffla there is a dearth of oxygen. There’s an awful lot yet to 
be learned about this lake in spite of previous English and Belgian 
expeditions. The Belgians were the Urst to demonstrate the abundance 
of iish now found in it. A delicious small s«elt-lik® fish and 
very good eating, occurs in great quantity. Each night is fished 
(dipped up) using light lures; on dark nights a torch light attracts 
them, though with moonlight and daylight they shun the surface. In 
the height of the fishing season as many as a thousand dug out canoes 
will be out at night wi-Ui their torches, although in these days Coleman 
(feasoline mantle) lights are used instead. Their brighter beam draws 
the fish better, with the result that fisherman using these lights 
have increased their catch 6 fold. These little fish, fried are most 
tasty and grand to serve with cocktails. The catch is practically 
all consumed locally and fresh. Mould that I could have had some canned 
for you. They are cheap enough 5-6 cents a quart, 
Eveiy other week Marlier has a 600 ft. seine hauled on the beach 
at night for purpose of sampling the local fish population; he records 
0444 kind, number, weight, and the stomach contents of representative 
specimens, in order to check on kind of food sought. Between weeks, 
day light hauls are made but so that I could see and photo a day time 
haul we staged one the very next morni§g also, the 2l3t, and sure 
enough we got more fish, additional kinds as ccmpared with the night 
haul. A couple of fish he said were rather rare. All but one of the 
latter, that Marlier wanted for the station collection were pickled 
for the National Museum. After the seine haul we ran over to Usumbura 
at the N. E, corner of the lake. Here resides the governor of the 
Belgian mandate- Ruandu-tfirundi; the newly appointed governor is Jeaxi 
