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Page 227 Ngololand - Itoki to Ndian; Kitta Page 227 With a loud song the heavily laden boat approached, the paddles moved more and more eagerly, and soon it headed up towards the sandy landing site. Headinan presented the precious mail wrapped in a cloth, which had been eagerly awaited, as we had been without communication with the outside world for the past two months. In addition to the dear letters from home, a letter from Knutson was included, containing an offer to accompany him on a march up a mountain in Ngololand. In three weeks he would come to fetch me at Kitta, the starting point of the march, situated not far from Ekundu, at the transition between the mangrove region and the bush forest. Actually, my intention had been to go from Itoki to Ndian; but when Linnell had informed me a few days before by messenger that the factory there was not yet ready, I decided to make preparations immediately for the journey to Kitta and from there to watch the time for the march with Knutson. It was now necessary to get everything in order without too much delay, for the boat would return the next morning. There was also a lot of activity at the factory. The sun was burning brightly, and although we were half-naked we were bathed in sweat. Trunks, trunks and boxes were opened for the packing of the collections; skins and skeletons, insects in tin boxes and boxes, glass jars with spirit animals, tubes and bottles, everything had to be arranged and packed for transport. Not the least time was spent on the description of about thirty larvae. Since there was no room to place all the larva cages in the boat as they were, they had to be packed inside each other — they were made in different sizes specifically for transport — and different species of larvae had to be put together. To prevent any confusion, they had to be described quite carefully, and it was also ensured that those put together were not similar but as different as possible and easily distinguishable. There was also lively activity at the factory. With a long chalk pipe in his mouth, his shirt torn open and his sleeves rolled up, Mr. Äiander walked around and gave out orders, usually in the native language. He was quite good at it. One oil drum after another was rolled down to the landing site, while the provisions, fabrics, etc. that had been sent up were carried up to the factory. Among

Page 238 Bonge, Bavo, Itoki, Ndian Page 238 (Crinigers or Xeuocichla species such as calurus, tricolor, notatus and others), Aletlie eastanea, the red-bellied Stiphrornis gabonensis, the small extremely short-tailed black and white or (female) brown- red, gray and white flycatcher Platysteira eastanea during avid insect hunting, the former often pursuing advancing migratory ants. From clusters of lianas growing around larger trunks, the crow-like cry of the helmeted bird sounded, while the rather melodious song of the small greenish-yellow Andropadus virens, reminiscent of our garden warbler, sounded from the leafy lower crowns. In these forests one also finds the beautiful, light grey above, under reddish brown, adorned with a black head and grey-black throat, of the woodpecker Terpsiphone tricolor, the small, yellowish above, brownish below on a brownish ground, light-spotted woodpecker Campothera nivosa, whose male is distinguished from the female by its red back head, the yellow-green above, sulfur-yellow spotted on the wings, under grey on the sides, yellow-green, of the magpie Nicator chloris, whose slurping sound is confusingly similar to that of a squirrel, the blue-grey with a black head and black-brown wings and tail, the flycatcher Trochocercus nigromitratus, the splendid weavers Malimbus nitens and cristatus, the horned magpies Bycanistes Sharpei and Lophoceros camurus, a small, red-brown, with light, gray-blue head and green metallic spots on the wings adorned the pigeon (Peristera puella), the famous black melodious Dicrurus, partridge-like birds (Francolinus Lathami) living among the dense snares, and others. Further inland, the more typical primeval forest began. Oil palms and silk cotton trees became more numerous, the trees, whose trunks were often entwined with lianas, convolvulaceae and other climbing plants, stood more spread out and sometimes left freer spaces between them, whereas the lower underwood, which over long stretches could almost exclusively consist of aromatic ginger plants (Amomura granum paradisi) and broad-leaved, tall marantaceae, remained just as dense and impenetrable. Such was the vegetation even more in the forests located further from the mangrove region up the rivers at Bonge, Bavo, Itoki and partly at Ndian. I walked along the path catching butterflies flying up from it, when suddenly some pure, beautiful soft flute notes from