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LIDICKER
1969
Yamowe (local school teacher) of Uram. The farm speaks pretty good English. The village belongs to the Abisan tribe or language is the same here.
After lunch Bill walked for a bit while I caught up on some notes. About 1430 I went to set traps with Yamowe. We went by his house so I met his wife and small baby. We took day another man as well. We went almost straight down maybe 100 ft. to the river (on W side of village). About 2/3 I lay down we started getting in to good point. Set 1 Sherman bait trap ~ 1/2 way down. River has only small flow with intermittent jets. Yamowe says there are no fish because it occasionally dries up.
We set 15 traps along both sides of the stream, looking upstream. This must be very low for the bed bottom of the river which is apparently the Namagani, a river between the Namagali (to W) and Namagan (to E). We climbed back up by continuing upstream or at to the W. Eventually we hit the main track to the NW of the village which is the one Bill had gone down to see a house, but it turned out to be only a "playground" I.e brick-1-decked instead of a house itself. It rained intermittently in afternoon.
After party we went back and baited briefly with the other fellow while Yamowe was to find a good set for our new spot (bank just above) - a 9# Hawker.
When he called we were off down the slope again to set the trap. At 1 point I landed on a raft