afternoon. this is up the niger river, closer to timbuctoo. i camped under the stars, and one night i went via the niger river, and this is 6 a.m., one of our two boatsmen. i forget his name, but the other was papa, and they took us up river, and we had to cut the engines when we got near the hippos because they don't like to be disturbed and they will chase after you. they open their mouth and gape it, and they are completely intimidating, and i saw this guy looking off, and i went, oh, is that a photo or what? magnificent face against that beautiful blue sky. it was a great three days on that boat. really nice people i met there. that's the festival. that's the desert, that's a man and his camel, and if you spent