197 Feb. 6. The man's skin appeared to be infected with a fungus. He had large mottled areas of paler skin over his back. We saw many colorful butterflies, several stick-like lizards, whip scorpion, ants (one species that builds galleries & loosely knit plant shaft on plant stalks), termites tubes, some extending to the tops of the highest forest trees. It was warm and the air heavy, probably from high humidity imported by the rank vegetation, despite the fact that it has not rained for 4 or 5 days. This is considered a drought! We heard cicadas, sounding like a buzz-saws, and a ventiloquial sound from the tree tops that had a dull, rhythmic quality, which we failed to identify. Midway's place is on a lawn edged beach in rainforest about 12 mi. E of town. Dart & I spent the rest of the afternoon and evening there. Wells attempted to get Midway's aboriginal servant to put on a loin cloth and act out a blow gun-hunting procedure for one but failed. Later when Midway arrived we found out that he was refracting because he did not feel he was sufficiently skilled to represent his people and did not want to create a wrong impression. Midway finally persuaded him we were not engaged in a big production and he dressed in native garb and put on a face show. I got shots of the use of the blow gun and of the rainforest across the canyon.