Field notes, v1307
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Greer, H. 1990 November 7 (continued) millet fields, etc. Tomorrow a new site. We set up past midnight w/ some red wire Mike brought & shoot the shit. Before turning in I went out on the edge of the hill to take a leak - stars and no clouds, trees on the ridge above Isasha Gorge silhouetted individually on the horizon against a giant yellow African moon. November 8woke late, ~0800h, sure my hung out wet clothes had blown to Zaire in a loud windstorm that came through ~0500 h, but Joe our cook had at some point dropped everything in under the tarp. Took until 11pm to break camp and hike out to the cars, where we were soon swarmed by ~25 curious local people. One little boy handed me, wordlessly, an old white plastic bottle - peered in and was surprised by 3 YENOPUS! We didn't get away quickly. Stopped soon at Butogola to buy beer, coffee, and toilet paper. While Jens and I waited in the car a crowd of children surrounded us, and we soon had them in stitches by encouraging to touch our hairy arms, beards, and my bald head. Ngota Swamp, Biwindi Forest Reserve Bukungisi Dist. Uganda Arrived here ~1450h after a deadly ride, at our camp in recently cleared land above a papyrus swamp that extends SW out of the adjacent Reserve into farmland to the NNE. Right on time, big dark storms zoom in from the N as we put up the tarps. Walking around afterwards, looks like this could be our best camp yet.