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materials directed outward &
very wide. Their lips + mouth
are also large + strangely
features generally being a
different than that. I mean
our camp when many
Gigphis trees bearing the
yellow fruit which is
eatable + monkey nutters
monkey. The tree had sprus,
but dark shiny leaves but
live ash in appearance.
None of the natives here eat
monkey meat & tho some of the
hunters have shot specimens
purs. The skins I havent
seen in any where either but
the monkeys are quite wary
& difficult to approach so they
are probably shot as often,
In weeks hunting the gigphus
became so many that they
could not be approached without
exercising extreme caution.
8) I spent the day at Hue
Peym but without results.
A went out driving with 2 women &
Darw morgane. Should get
my photo show me where the