Sorry that Tony's tonsil operation proved so painful. I know how 
he must have felt. It is kind of ridiculous to see a man in the bloom of 
health, such as Tony, incapacitated by a "childhood condition". 
I know that your trip to the Coast must have been wonderful. I envy 
you the experiences of sailing and so forth. 
Iam glad to hear that the books arrived for you to transmit to 
Murumbi. I was real concerned and confused as te why they hadn't been 
accepted on our first mailing. I am very much afraid that the United 
States Postal Service is not as good as it used to be. 
The news about the two new bongo traps is very exciting. Asa 
matter of curiosity I would be interested in knowing where they are in 
relative location to the other traps. This is really not important, only 
to give me the placement of these traps in my own mind. I can see 
where you may have to (as I believe you use the term) ‘Give them 
the scent". 
The number of animals that have been caught in the traps is quite 
imteresting. I can certainly imagine that when you turned the two 
full-grown buffalo and the giant forest hog loose it was quite an exciting 
time. I hope you got some pictures of that. I can just imagine every - 
body high up in the tree opening the trap doors. I can also imagine 
the dejected look on the local men's faces when they saw all that meat 
charging off into the bush instead of to their pots. 
Incidentally, how is Christopher with his various and sundry affairs 
coming along’? Is Stephen still taking them away from him ? 
As you can imagine, many people here in Washington have been) 
asking me about the bongo trapping and I have replied that we caught 
bush buck, buffalo, giant forest hog and the Hong Kong flu. This last 
beast was not mentioned in your letters but it seems to make everybady 
laugh, and we jollily pass over the whole subject of what's going on up . 
in the forest. I am certainly glad that I had the opportunity to see the. © 
forest and to see the actual trapping cperations, since I can understand. 
the difficulty in getting these particular beasts. To those people who | 
visualize Africa as one vast Serengeti Plains stretching from the Red | 
Sea to the Atlantic Ocean with men wearing short pants and pith helmets 
and beautiful women drinking long cold drinks in front of their tents at © 
night, it's difficult to convey the impenetrability of the bamboo forest. 
Unfortunately the National Geographic has all our film tied up, sol 
have not been able to have one of those handy-dandy little pictures of us 
going up the trail with Mike in the lead maybe 25 yards in front of us \ 
and at least 50 yards higher than we are. Oh well, I guess t's like some 
of the war experiences -- if you weren't there it's hard to visualize what, 
did happen. 
Sorry to hear that December was so dry. As I recall, you had 
figured that the bongo would be moving around more in December and. 
perhaps that would be your best trapping chances. 
