WE DIG IN 51 



Most of them are of fairly recent volcanic origin. 

 Gases have been sealed up in them for centuries. 

 So when they are heated the gases expand and burst 

 them open. Natives say there are many accidents 

 of this sort. 



Osa was delighted when I installed our laundry. 

 I had a special building erected where all our washing 

 was done in big tubs by the natives. Clean boiling 

 water was used and real irons and ironing boards. 

 All this paraphernalia fascinated our African help 

 who possessed no clothes to launder. 



With the completion of our settlement, the rainy 

 season stopped. It had not rained all the time, of 

 course. After the first four or five days of heavy 

 downpour, the heavens usually contented them- 

 selves with a good shower between middle afternoon 

 and sundown, and there were strips in the desert 

 below us which had very little water during the two 

 and a half months of this season. But we were glad 

 of the advent of fair weather for now we could set 

 about making the pictxires for which we had come 

 over so many lands and seas. 



Our final housewarming we celebrated by a great 

 barbecue of oxen which I had bought from the 

 neighboring Boran wanderers, and by the wild 

 chanting of the hundred odd natives in camp. 



