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C. Koford
25
Journal
3 September 1965 Toro Game Preserve, nr Ft. Portal, Uganda
Lion seen, + hyena close at night. Rain slant 4 a.m. + for a few
hours after. Visited the hunting lodge, from where we saw 4 gaz.
cobblers at me + her daughter, in river forest - good place for
driver territorial census? Returned to Ft. P. + Selitili camps.
4 September 1965. Bridham left for Goro. Elephant said shot 3 mi.
down road last night; we went to area + saw many tracks but
did not find body. Camp walk.
5 September 1965. Sunday. With Antais Mujam, drove S. thru
Kilohi Forest to Bud Bigodi. Patchen forest + elephant grass.
Gazd once grazed, but grazing ceased because of rogans. The
N. to Kigarama, S. to area of Korenda, where road passed be-
tween 2 crater lakes. The slopes of crater mostly well for-
ested. We saw no monkeys, but Mujam said he had seen
dolobars, more than once, cross road nr. county line (Duru R.);
a fair patch of forest here. Returned to Selitili camp. | Drop
trap in woods nr. Bridham's road caught 1 mouse during day
(KAK No. 1). | Unsuccessfully looked for carcass shot elephant.
6 September 1965. Camp jobs. Shopped in Ft. Portal. | Yesterday
acquired 2 Chameleons taken nr. Kigarama. Still have large
drat found in forest on Sept. 4; yesterday it gave birth to dead
inf. (preserved). | In evening saw chimpanzee nr. Njyugata cross-
ing, + ad. & w. yearling (?) bushbuck around nr. mile 5.0 on
road S. of Kagera Saw Mill. | Good mix of white-throated monkey.
[= L'Horst's guenon]
7 September 1965. Departed 6 a.m. + drove to Kampala. Left
animals, visited in zool. dept., shopped. Camped nr. Entebbe at
edge Lake Victoria.