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C. Koford
15
Journal
19 February 1962.
NW. of Lucknow, India
(Mailani)
scattered over so invisible. Bait grain - only about a round put.
metal stake
net
net fastened to sticks
rope at top edge; lighter line at bottom
sticks->
wire pull
edge, which is in bottom of trench.
rope
Men set about 100 yds. away in open; talked & joked; easily heard beyond 100
yds. / saw first occasional termite mounds to 6' tall. / 1340, ox cart
drove past first trap. Both take up about 2 p.m., or repeated about
50 minutes at another site. We walked to new site on broad dirt road
thru forest 1 1/2 mi. W. of town. Net set dry side of road. Never make att-
nested to site by our scattering grain. 1 ad. #7, 4 ad. #2, 2 syl. But
none actually stayed at net site. Set 3:15 p.m. of led group works.
One & had yds. on back. No luck. Walked back to Mailani. Slept
in a sort of hostel, where room & rope bed provided; clean enough, but
mosquitoes, & dogs barking. Supposed to get early start for trapping tomorrow.
20 February 1962 We drove back to Kukra, arriving 0720 at camp
of monkey trappers. Brave huts; slept in grass piled on ground; very primi-
tive. They had about 6 small chim in 2 bamboo cages. About 15 men & boys
with ropes, nets, hatchets, & picks, soon set out afoot for forest patch 1 mile N.
of Mailani. We saw two ad. & 9 near road, but then not pursued as presumably
going to catch a group. Arrived 0845. Much yelling back & forth among the
men. A few climbed trees & hacked off branches, or cut down low tree.
Saw a 5 lb. monkey seen in trees. He moved from tree to tree. Finally they
cut many branches from one tree, but left one large branch pro-
truding toward another. This branch was cut around, halfway
though, and a long 3/8" rope run over limb. A net about 3' high
then put around base base of tree, about 50' x 100' area O. Then
much shrill shouting, throwing sticks, wielding men in treestoms.
The little monkey fled his tree, going onto tip of the cut branch,