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deep water work><*hot too deep 
near 
the bottom verier e is a dearth/df oxygen. T)*ei>e*s an aw£#i lot yet t> 
be leaohed about this J,«fke in spite previous^Snglish andJBdfgian 
itienes — 
the 
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occurs 
Continuation of May lli/55 letter 
traps 
he bottom 
very good eating. 
A delicious small smelt-like fish and 
v t » B a oh night ie-fiahe d* 
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 with their torches, alfrMtm fe ^n these dajs fcotmmr' 
(gasoline mantle) lights are usedjwmtwf. Their brighter beam draws 
° Ss»t L irtyl»W 
the fish better, with the result that fisherman using lights 
have increased their catch 6 fold 
little fis 
The catch is practically 
* fo t» Id • 4hatH£~ceu-lti iiave^ad^O!n^~Tmw^ 
eeuxt 
0J9 OYi Cei*~i 
quart. 
all eonsumedj^locall 
' — ' <X*f du » 
•for -yew*, They are cheap enough^-6 cents/a qu 
Every other week Marlier has a 600 ft. seine hauled on the )6fl beach 
at night for purpose of sampling the local fish population; he records 
tm k3.nd, 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 morning also, the 21st, and sure 
enough we got more fish, additional kinds as compared with the night 
Ac mdkis 
haul* A couple of afish ^^said were rather rare* All but ore of the 
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latter^ tMt Marlier wanted for the station collection.were pickled 
for the Nations! Museum. After feie seine haul we ran over to Usumbura 
at the N. E. corner of the lake. Here resides the governor of the 
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Belgian mandate- Ruandu- Urundi<Qphe newly appointed governor Jean 
