Field notes, v1307
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Greene, H. 1990 November 5 (continued) hens' eggs from a passerby, which we ate fried w/ smoked toast smeared w/ marmelade Wilhelm some- how produced. He will leave after breakfast and be missed. Took photographs, picked, etc. during a morning that didn't turn bright sunny til almost noon. 1100hr while we were working Leo brought in our first leopardie for this site, which he found hopping on the path through our camp area. Then he fixed me a bath - first in some week. He had prepared a dense platform of green leaves to stand on - w/ a stout limb beside it for hanging clothes and towel, a basin of very hot water, a basin of cold water, and a cup. Very warm water and shampoo for the head and crotch were absolutely glorious! Then I walked several hundred meters up and down the two-track, checking trees and logs to the side, and down the forest trail through three creek crossing - didn't see a leop, tho I was especially alert to sunny spots. Returned for lunch and rode witing at 1400hr as storm clouds closed over, but by 1630hr we'd still had scarcely a drizzle so walked out along the 2-track again and picked up a J Byfs in wetgrass to keep alive for Anna Graybeat at 1650hrs. On the BBC's African news report at 1815 hr we heard that 500 Rwanda rebels overrun a border outpost a few km from Kabale, the quiet little town through which we entered Bwindi Forest. After dinner we all went on separate walks - I went to the second stream crossing,