. n Mombo is cne seat of another of the Episcopal Mission schools* 
xn charge of a young native teacher called Varney, and his wife who 
w, ff, a nurse in the hospital. Vs.rney was playing football 
v/vcli his boys when we arrived and came over to greet us with a wide 
smile and a charming unaffected manner quite different from the 
customary pomposity of the educated Liberian. He- has a sbhool, a 
dispensary and a chapel - all of mud with thatched roofs. The little 
chapel was quite sweet, with arched windows, and a large piece of 
country cl th which had been woven with a design of crucifixes huns 
behind the altar. 
ihere is also a nice rest house here, with a dining room, 
verandah, and two bedrooms* Our boys set up camp, and Mrs. Varney 
sent over large bowls and pans containing rice, chicken, nalm butter 
and boiled eddoes* 
May l 4 - ^ At eight o'clock we were on the road again, stonoing in 
various villages along the way to visit with people Mr. Paul knew - 
either^ small traders or native Mission teachers. In one place an old 
man with the worst case of yaws I have yet seen came up and insisted 
on shaking hands with me. As soon as we were out of sight I borrowed 
one of Bill's alcohol vials and disinfected my hands as well as possible. 
luncned by toe roadside off sardines, pickles, biscuits and, 
jam, and readied Bendaja at two o'clock, where we were greeted most 
hospitably by ohe Paramount Chief Boima Ouae - a picturesque old charac- 
' er f Liberia .tor having led the Mo la uprising some twenty years 
fP' :o • be Prepared his rest house for us, « even furnishing beds and b addin 
The house is circular, with two doors and four windows, provided with 
wodden doors and two sets of shutters to each* window. Inside were two 
oeas, two Dig . tables, several chairs, a large sideboard, matting on the 
xloor, and. quite a lot of wood-carving around doors and windows and 
even one octagonal panel set into the heavy matting of the ceiling. 
e produced ±op us a fine set Ojl cuina, and put good nieces of countrv 
cloth, as well as embroidered sheets and pillow cases, on the grass 
mattresses on the beds. All we had to do was hang up our mosauito net. 
©n the walls were some Japanese posters, a postcard picture of 
Rome upside down, a scene of horseback riders in what appeared to be 
the Rocky mountains, an Arabic script, a photograph of President Barclay, 
and a certificate to the effect that Chief Boima Quae had been awarded " 
a gold medal by the Liberian government, 
-be Chief's head woman, an attractive young thing called 
Fermat ah, who is quite a flirt, cooked country" chon for us, and it was 
good. Rain fell during most of the afternoon, but’ toward evening T 
wandered down ‘ one of the nearby trails, and found monkeys in trees 
actually m sight oi tne town. Monkeys here are not killed for food* 
and we had been told that they were more tame than in anv other nert 
of Africa. 
Thio is a Mohammedan town, altnough the Episcopal Mission has 
a school on the outskirts, and five times a day one hears the call of 
the muezzin, and tn.e men repair to the mud— wal3..ed, thatch— roofed mo s one. 
which has a lattice-work screen of bamboo hanging on alx'xour sides. 
May 15 - We spent the morning chonping up a big termite nest, a mound 
about six feet tall. in It were millions of termites - workers, soldier 
