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noise of the railway and engines. My job here is to look 

 after a very large number of Congolese porters — 15,000 — who 

 will he sent through in batches. As they ail come from 

 Sleeping Sickness country, and are going to a 'Fly' country 

 (the rivers of U.K. A.), it is important that all cases of 

 Trypanosomiasis should he kept hack. So 1 have to examine 

 each man to exclude S.S.. and then vaccinate, etc. I am 

 quite glad to have a job of work again, and particularly to 

 feci that 1 am again in touch with ' my friend the enemy,' S.S. 

 I hope at less busy times that I shall be able to send you 

 some more butterflies from here, especially Crenidomimas, as 

 before. So there's no chance of leave yet. but 1 don't mind 

 now that I have got a useful job to do. 



" Nov. 2, 1917. Lulanguru. 



" I'm very happy here now that I've got. at last, a job of 

 work to do again. Since the middle of October, when I got 

 here, three batches of Congolese of about 450 each have 

 arrived, and 1 have examined all of them and rejected some 

 for apparent early Sleeping Sickness. It's very interesting 

 seeing natives of such different type from what I have seen 

 hitherto they are many of them very very small : these, of 

 course, are from the forests. It is said that altogether 15,000 

 are corning through here, but though that sounds a large 

 number it's only enough to make good the wastage of all 

 porters for one ino><th ! I have about 60 in hospital; every 

 batch that arrives leaves me with cases of Pneumonia and 

 Amoebic Dysentery, but thank goodness they seem free of 

 Cerebrospinal Meningitis, which has been a great scourge in 

 -oiiie parts. 



" Our local war is so far away (some hundreds of miles ! 

 1 am 17 miles W. of Tabora) that we only know what the 

 weekly official wire tells us. but the one we got this morning 

 announced such a haul of prisoners and killed that one's 

 l.opc- rise again that after all it may be finished this year. 

 If they can't get it done before the rains begin in January 

 they will have to wait until June at the earliest before they 

 can begin again ! " 



Speaking of Itigi : " Fortunately I found some thorn 



