Atenee, H. 1990 November 15 Game Department, for our export permit. Lunch (continued) at the Sheraton Hotel w/ Tom & Jan et al., back to the Ministry to look for Mr. Okua—we'd become concerned about our Nairobi connection and decided to try to leave Uganda tomorrow. Looks like half the vehicles in Kampala belong to some non-governmental organization or Ministry of Whatever! Mr. Okua shows up at 1500 h w/ Joe Baraducci, an animal exporter I'd met years ago in Miami, and suddenly we are crammed in a sedan w/ them, hurrying out to a rundown industrial district to see his frogs, lizards, and snakes. General appearance of the place was grotesquely shabby and dirty. Two representative events: he threw a gecko back into a cage after showing it to us; he had some spitting cobras in a box and said "I wish they'd hung up and die, they be too dangerous to keep here—if I had a freezer I'd kill them." He handled chameleons unnecessarily roughly, as if they could deliver a bad bite. Bob and I were very uncomfortable w/ the whole scene and unsure as to why Okua wanted us there. Joe had ~10 pickled reptiles which he offered us, and Bob was careful to say we are here on a project for CARE—asked Mr. Okua directly if he wanted us to take the stuff and identify it, and Mr. Okua