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is "magadi" in Swahili. Lions succeed in only 15-20% of their hunts. July 4, Tuesday. Return drive to Arusha, thence to Nairobi. Long day of driving. 32 Left lodge 7.30 a.m., starting early to allow some time to visit the mission dispensary. Misty and cool. Passed the Conservation Area boundary. Stopped to visit a family in a rural homestead not far outside the conservation area boundary. He is: Juma Tlatlaa, P. O. Box. 272, Karatu, via Arusha, Tanzania, East Africa. Took pictures; send him copies. Drove through Karatu village. We took pictures of woman at water tap, especially since Jane had worked with UNICEF collecting money to provide better water taps in East African villages. We visited a dispensary, a sort of mission hospital, a Roman Catholic order. There are 2-3 Europeans here, our host was Swiss, long in Papua New Guinea. Sr. Verona Hutter, Dispensary Rhotia, P. O. Box 66, Karatu via Arusha. They had had a bad siege with malaria in the spring before, two people in a hospital bed. There have been droughts in the area, people are poor, and the government health service (so-called) requires bribes to get attention. People can't afford the quinine to cure it; they come here. We visited the maternity ward; one young women had just had twins the night before; she looked late teen age, but the sister said these were here seventh and eighth children; she had six more at home! It is hard to visit this place and not weep. A young girl wanted a ride with us to the main blacktop road, and we took her along. Took her picture at another well. 2 baboons, roadside 5 baboons yellow-billed storks, hundreds of them in a roosting tree. We reached the village of Mto-wa-Mbu again, stopped at the market. There are too many people trying to sell you something. Augur buzzard striped hyena - killed on roadside. This is the nocturnal one you never see. We stopped at curio shop on edge of Arusha, rather large one. Jane bought T-shirts. We reached Arusha. We went to the Ranger Safari maintenance yard, and left Peter here for a new driver, Joseph. Changed vans for one that would ride more smoothly. Went to lunch at the Mountain Lodge again, then drove to the border. Mt. Kilimanjaro was somewhat visible in haze and cloud in the distance. 3 ostrich 6-8 Thomson's gazelles The place to see chimps is Gombe Stream Park on Lake Tanganyika, north of Kigoma. This is a
33 small park. Jane Goodall's research station is there. You have to go the last part by boat. The park fee is $ 100 for 24 hours. Salous Game Reserve, southwest of Dar-es-Salaam, is as big as the Serengeti, perhaps the world's largest game reserve, and quite wild. It was once a preserve of big game hunters. There are said to be 100,000 elephants there. Most is trackless wilderness. Mt. Meru on the return trip was seen better than before, am impressive mountain. We reached the border and crossed it. Jane bought some beads from the urgent hawkers, making a deal of $ 10 for four, and had to go into her money belt in the van, with people hanging all around trying to sell something. Rather comical. We changed vans, and returned to Nairobi. Night at the Norfolk Hotel. July 5. Wednesday. In the morning, walked to Text Book Centre again. Schaller, George B., The Serengeti Lion: A Study of Predator-Prey Relations. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1972. Includes chapters on leopard, cheetah, wild dog, and hyena. Grzimek, Bernard and Michael, Serengeti Shall Not Die. 1960, translated from German. E. P. Dutton. Also a film of the same name, which won an oscar as a documentary. The Grzimeks were a famous German father and son who studied the migration patterns and tried to do a census. The son was killed in a plane crash in a plane being used for census. Johns, Chris, Valley of Life: Africa's Great Rift. Shrewsbury: Swan Hill Press, 1991. Also and originally Thomasson-Grant in U.S. British ISBN 1 85310 197 4. Mostly splendid pictures. $ 26 in Nairobi. Kunkel, Reinhard, Ngorongoro. London: Harvill (Harper Collins), 1992. ISBN 0-00-272188-0. Pounds sterling 40. Mostly gorgeous photos. van Lawick, Hugo, Savage Paradise: The Predators of Serengeti. London: Collins Harvill, 1977, reprint 1983. ISBN 0 00 216771 9. I bought it, $ 25 in Nairobi and it cost me that much again to send it by surface mail to the U.S. Scott, Jonathan, Kingdom of Lions. London: Lyle Cathie, Ltd, 1992. ISBN 1 85626 061 5 on Masa Mara. Good text and pictures. $ 22 in Nairobi. Scott, Jonathan, The Leopard's Tale. London: Elm Tree Books, 1985, 1988. ISBN 0-241-11444-6. Text and pictures. $ 15 in Nairobi. Smith, Anthony, The Great Rift: Africa's Changing Valley. London: BBC Books, 1988, 1992. ISBN 0 563 36349 5. Done from a TV series. $ 10 in Nairobi. Looks good. Palgrave, Keith Coates, Trees of Southern Africa, 2nd revised edition. Cape Town, 1977, 1993. ISBN 1 86825 1713. Major botanical text. 959 pages. $ 30 in Nairobi.
Page 1 and 2: Trail Log 1995-1997 Holmes Rolston,
Page 3 and 4: 1995 January 4, 1995. Wednesday. Ad
Page 5 and 6: "Winnow" - the root is wind, vent,
Page 7 and 8: Worker's Directory. He gave me a co
Page 9 and 10: 7 year. Leaving the hospital comple
Page 11 and 12: 9 Bougainvillaea. Many kinds, all w
Page 13 and 14: 11 Gerenuk - a very long necked ant
Page 15 and 16: 13 I took a bird walk on my own, as
Page 19 and 20: 15 francolins egret, unidentified e
Page 21 and 22: 17 2 males, old males 3 females, wi
Page 24 and 25: 19 somewhat better on the return tr
Page 26 and 27: 21 mahogany trees wild fig trees ga
Page 28 and 29: Continuing, we crossed a long, flat
Page 30 and 31: 25 50 zebras 1,000 zebras on one si
Page 32 and 33: 27 impala giraffe and baby zebras c
Page 34 and 35: 29 Robin chat stone chat northern d
Page 39: 31 We drove back around in the lake
Page 43 and 44: 35 July 6. Thursday, continued. Met
Page 45 and 46: 37 July 10. Monday. Drove to Kruger
Page 47 and 48: 39 The guides go first, Jan up fron
Page 49: But it was getting dark and we didn
Page 54: 43 Lions roaring as we got up in th
Page 57 and 58: 45 little egret giant kingfisher pi
Page 59 and 60: 47 At Skukuza, I separated from Joh
Page 61 and 62: stand your ground. Be bold and nois
Page 63 and 64: 51 Red-billed woodhoopoe, with call
Page 65: 53 we found a rhino horn (pix), whi
Page 69 and 70: 55 giant kingfisher darter (anhinga
Page 71 and 72: 57 distance away to the four winds.
Page 73 and 74: 59 We were visited that evening by
Page 75 and 76: 61 the township with an enrollment
Page 77 and 78: 63 University of Cape Town. Lovely
Page 79 and 80: 65 the trashiest of all. Afternoon.
Page 81 and 82: 67 August 16. Wednesday. Day of mee
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water supplies are put in a couple
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track in the snow. We left about 11
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4 coyotes in snow. 1 immature bald
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Two coyotes came down the road in f
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Spain, surprisingly, as there are i
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Australia July 1 - August 19, 1996
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July 10, Wednesday. Drove to Laming
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We drove through the rainforest and
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QUT. Elizabeth Saxon, sat beside me
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Eucalyptus trees here are often dea
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and barely survived. Antechinus stu
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floods and drought, much compacted.
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it later deteriorated. Wombat kille
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Seminar at 2.15 p.m Chris Mortenson
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Then to Murdoch University, lecture
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This cave is the pouch of the femal
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Huge streams pour off the rock in a
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ut not all that messed up. Turned a
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Trail Log 1997 February 22, 1997, S
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much better in the lower, protected
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To Tower Junction, then to Tower, l
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Back to the ranch. The coyote was a
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crows are unusual inside Yellowston
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as a bell in contrast to yesterday.
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I went up on a higher hill to try t
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Siberia and Lake Baikal June 15-29,
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Russia has an 80-year old system of
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In the dining car, there never seem
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Reached Zilovo, about 10.15, about
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City tour on a nice day. Population
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second oldest 2,000,000 years. It h
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Communism unraveled, and that, we t
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Thalictrum foetidum Grimmia calcare
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Walk to Shaman Rock. From the rock,
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Viola rupestris Euphorbia alpina Pl
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Lychnis sibirica Schizonepetala mul
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wapiti, elk (American term), red de
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July 16-18, 1997, Tuesday through F
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Events in Ft. Collins area: July 28
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Camped at Sarto Creek, in flats nea
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Shuttle back to Missoula, arriving
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Polygonum viviparum, Alpine Bistort
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