Azeez, h. 1990 Nov 2 (continued) and milk. Our "choo" (toilet) is a small hole in a mound of dirt, braced by crossed sticks. This place looks a strange combination of low and montane wet forest if compared to Costa Rica, in that the trees are quite tall (>30m) but not big - few have substantial buttresses and I haven't seen a really big one yet. They are often festooned w/ thick wet moss. There is a dense understory of herbaceous vegetation >1m high, lots of ferns including big tree ferns. Bright blue sky all morning. I walked for ~30min out and back a small trail that crosses three streams, then ~1km downhill (~5h) on the 2-track. At 11:05h found a cat scat ~ size of golden cat and two unknown frog cells from ground level around a big seep beside the road. Returned ~1/2.5h to dry my two bags of wet clothes in the sun. This place is very different from La Selva (of course, this is ~5200'el.) - almost no bad insects, no real danger from snakes. I asked Vincent what is the most dangerous thing in the forest, and he said it's holes made by miners, pit sawers, and poachers - you could fall through vegetation into one. Then maybe elephants, but they usually run from people here in the forest. Many local Africans use the 2-track we drive in on by our camp - I saw 6 in it (in this morning, all of them w/ baskets on their heads. Dark clouds roll in from NE at 12:30h and we got a brief shower at 13:20h (it had rizzled much of yesterday