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niece of flint, a piece of metal, and a black, fuzzy substance from 
the inside of a palm. 
Cargadores all caught up. 
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Lunched and started at 1:30. New Mandaya guide, named Lu-ba-saok 
height 5 ft. Weight about 120 lbs. Photographed with a columnar rock. 
Halted for camp in a superb part of the Baganga River, at 4 P. M. 
A rough sleeping ground, but a fairy garden in verdure and scenery. 
A leech got way up my nose today, and could not be gotten out until well 
fed, and after, at Capt. McCoy* s suggestion, I had sickened him by in- 
haling tobacco smoke, when I succeeded in blowing out a fine fat spec- 
imen, to the great interest of the assembled part. A few wagtails are 
now appearing on the stones of the creek* Now and then a white-headed 
Kingfisher. One flock of Monkeys, which we shot at for food for our 
cargadores, but we got none. 
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Slept very comfortably on a flat rock, slightly sloping. My bed 
was of fern leaves 20 ft, long with frond stems like cord wood. By 
placing the thick end on the down-hill slope, and trimming the leaflets 
on one side so as to have them in the center and with the stems on either 
side of the lying space, I had me a soft level bed. 
It rained half the night but my two pouches kept me dry* Some 
beast or bird (Goatsucker ) chucked and grunted near me, and I hoped to catch 
one in one of 4 traps sat near-by. We left camp at sunrise and proceeded 
up the Baganga River, as usual leaping from rock to rock and wading be- 
tween. Caves with old fires were passed; beautiful bluish pools, some 
large, a waterfall of left hand tributary 50 ft., multiple falls to it. 
After an hour and a quarter rested at the last pool, xr the River. 
