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E. Carrelan
1967
Journal
Catalogue
62
Rep de
4 Km N, 3.5 Km W of mouth Rio Luguesa, Darwin Prov, Parau
Sept 27
I didn't notice. Ate the bread, valence cheese
we brought and drank the water which we
carry in chlorax (plastic) bottles. The river
water is very brown. When we run out of
creoles we will use the river with halazone.
We arrived after having driven (full speed)
for hours. We stopped at their farm,
parked our 4x4 (because it has a motor) and
six people drove up to their house.
The banks are all muddy but they never
get this just as dirty as the Gringos.
Everyone goes bare foot - I have trouble
getting used to it even though it looks
cleaner soft. We skinned the
and let it soak in the
river so the fish would eat some of the
meat. Since it was raining anyway (hard)
we decided it would get dry very fast so
we experimented. The houses (1 large room) are
one-story and have no wells - just rods.
They (we)
sleep on wooden floors. There are 2 families live
so there were 3 little tents & 2 mosquito
nets. For some reason they laughed when
we were putting them up. Their tents you
can see through & noticed one person
per tent (not) the entire family uses one.
For dinner we had fried plantains and