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Slobin B
1963
82
Ocean Trip.
Karachi
Jan. 17 perhaps 3-4 years old was seen playing
with great energy. The men do the
waving - lucky fellows.
After a pleasant lunch at Batesfield's,
drove out in his Volkswagen bus to
garbage dump near a place called the
honey moon house (a house name of the
few hills here) not far from the great-
sprawling Jinnah Hospital. Here I got
marvelous shots of huge black vultures,
so gorged they couldn't could scarcely fly,
smaller scavenging pos birds of several
kinds, some apparently the young of the
black species, pye dogs, and bites.
Great wheeling column of bites numbering
perhaps 300 birds was moving over an
area of brackish pools but they drifted
too fast for a picture. Several fights
were seen among the vultures and
dogs. People also climb about through
the garbage.
Went to Mrs. Tinkins for dinner. Arrived
early so walked out across the mud flats near
his home. The soil was pretty well dried out at
the surface and cracked underfoot. Two camels
were feeding in low-growing mangrove (?) growth.
These plants are perhaps 3-4 ft. high here.
Had been told the walking feel, Persophthalium