Greene, H. 1990 November 7 (continued) wading in pools and climbing over riffles. We quit where lying across a jumble of boulders is a boat-like wooden object that Benjamin says was being built for making banana beer: [Drawing] ~3-3.5m long It is a hollowed out log, like a dugout, w/ handles on each end, and Benjamin says it is unfinished and thus was probably washed downstream and lost before use. He also said people here kill all snakes because they believe all are deadly. On the trail back up to camp Jens caught an Agamys atricollis and the Moluya sp. we saw earlier. Bob, Jim, and Mike failed to catch a big green snake they saw chasing a lizard in dense vegetation around a tree - Bob says probably Philothamnus but might have been Dendroaspis or Dispholidus - either more likely I think if it was chasing a lizard. Come back to camp at 1300h in a rain, eat "ground nuts" and half a banana. &/1330h we get hit by the most powerful storm I've ever been in, still more evidence that this is a poor place to camp. For ~30-40 minutes the wind howls over our little bencol w/ sheets of rain, our tarps banging and yanking out some of their poles. There was frantic yelling, banging, tying of ropes, etc., and everything