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hours. Collecting on the return journey took 11 7½ hours.
Followed from the TOTUBERI trail of the first of the grant land
match a fresh track with many branches & an approach to the
lake climbed over a low range of hills. Reached there at
± 5 p.m., when people from the part of the country
have a fishing camp. There sheet - the. On a point of land
ca. ½ mile E. W. was a native hamlet & in front of it a
small subtriggy canoe on the bank. Throwing off women there,
Men off, mainly away at the garden (a lot of activity here now
in clearing new ground).
Was informed with the efficiency to complete harmony with
the environment of my small gristle. 100/ from 6 to 10 from
It like we passed a new garden house occupied by a woman
& her children (one of whom went first when he was away), then
a small boy procured a firestick. 18° N. 10 p.m. at 10 p.m.
by a ground-dwelling fire with the stick, found somewhere a part
of line & a hook picked up a fish on the bank, & in me
lime had caught a fish. By 11 o'clock, when I called
for rice to be cooked for the boy's lunch, & my cat fully
built, It 7 o'clock but the fishes of small table size.
The offered my my choice. I took three of two different
species as specimens. The will be killed by boiling with a
stick, The clearest the string on its fins. The boat was
a small, pole shrimp, caught in the roots of the "water where"
(Pistia stratiotes); I have 13 or the others, plus 18 small
damselflies from the many shore.
On the following day botanically. I collected a bag of
water lilies. The only two form (Pistia, a white Tamarindium,
an amphibious Cyperus & a remarkable amphibious
Tinjung 2 or 30) will very thick 3-angled stem.) Then
for slack & water too slack where I was. All second growth
rain forest from the grass patch to the lake. From big
16:18 p.m. near on the flat banks of Lihali Track. Ford sandy lawn.
In wetlands I saw only a medium-sized May here
& a pair of jacanas. No sight of a crocodile which are
said to be very plentiful. Take off from well stocked with fish.
Note small. Rock of the cliff shore looked like a schist.