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time of the Biafra War. In the civil war there the Italian company, ENI,
had some of their personnel killed and lost all of their geological and
geophysical records that had been accumulated at the cost of millions of
dollars. In contrast, our manager had gotten all of his foreign employees
out safely as well as all of their geological and geophysical records.

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driver for the weekend. The country is gently rolling from Nairobi east
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burned wood. The main downtown street in Nairobi is separated by a
bank of multicolored bougainvillea, which were in full bloom and were
gorgeous.

We went through the Masai tribal area soon after leaving Nai-
robi. The Masai people are all very slim and the mature men I saw were
all over six feet tall. They herd long-horned cattle for a living. Their
principal food is a combination of milk and cow’s blood, which they
extract by nicking an artery on the cow’s neck.
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like a truly prehistoric animal. Their thick skin hung like slabs on their
bodies. The hippopotamuses in a pond looked like fat pigs. I had never
seen so many beautiful wild birds. We saw only a few lions; they were
inactive. The elephants we saw were all red. The soil in the area is red,
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I stayed overnight at a new hotel near the park. They had estab-
lished a pond with the hotel half encircling it and they put out salt to at-
tract animals. There were no animals whatsoever in the evening. I went
to bed and slept under mosquito netting. I awakened in the middle of

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