[Journal] March 6-November 22, 1933
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go any farther than the end of the trail line as I was feeling the effect of yesterday my two I stuffed with Bros while he cut a Black palm & brought from a section of the trunk to make a stick. I got nothing in my traps. November 6, 1933 all one day all day. A policeman hauled through goin' to Mondo about eleven with a few letters for Adamson only I've found out from him that there was lots of mail for us including a tin box in the mail lost by the Recruit Policeman. Any way this is one consolation now that we know it is lost and needn't expect any more for another fortnight or long. Brod, Brass & Adamson left and some confusion as this was a bunch of natives with spears to sell for a couple of days at Belavito. I went about 1/3 mile the way to the Daki, when the day before yesterday on my way back from to the Daki I had picked up a "Match boy bear" and gathered some more. On my way down I saw & shot a Negridian Whip & these is new to the collection. When I first saw him he was across a gully & with the glasses I could just make him out, I did not know what he was as I could not see his belt hat from the way he bobbed up and down I guessed what he was comeway he became curious & flew over close to me & it was his undoing. Halter sorein sent his boy over for a lesson in throwing bird comfortable I had not much for him to learn on but he succeeded in doing a parrot all right subsequently Halter, I swear, sent a three months' over $49 request for arsenic & alarmy. I shamed at $500 & might on set a ratler large for a redish white footed manne at the edge of the woods. November 7, 1933 Another finicky to far $56 + 5'30. I only went to the end of the trail cause I got mistaken trail by beside the main trail in the woods a well kind of set evidently ajourning farm. I had to root all the manes that Hallop had set