Greene, H. 1990 October 26 is stained w/ broad bright stripes of yellow and orange. (continued) As I walked back in there was a sudden noise of low, almost boom-like quality, accompanied by high pitched cries - in the light I could see the brown bodies and orange - glowing eyes of dozens of fruit bats. We found nothing under the mini debris scattered around, and explored the swampy area upstream (to the SW I think) of the crossing until ~1940h (after dark). There are several houses up hill, and the entire time we were followed by ~10 African kids (~6-16 years old, all small for their ages by my biases), sly but also mischievous. The boys wear shorts and T-shirts, the girls simple straight dresses, and all of them are covered w/ a layer of dust. Their body odors are rich and strong, almost offensive and yet intriguing, like being in a group of large ungulates or something. Around the stream and swamp we got frogs of the genera Hypoplioe, Phrynobatrachus, Rana, and Eleutheritis. We couldn't enter the largest swamp area due to its depth, but the Africans ran laughing out in it for 8-10 meters, their weight insufficient to penetrate - their movements caused the mat to undulate over a large area, as if they walked on a water bed! ~1900h I walked up the road to look for sleeping snakes and lizards in the roadside vegetation, and saw at a distance of ~75m a small cat that