There Is a small mission school and dispensary In Dambala, and 
we stopped at the teacher’s house, where his wife made palm oil chop 
for us’ with the two touracous, which were very tough indeed, hut had 
a nice gamey flavor* 
On the road we met a man with a" wild guinea, which we bought for 
two shillings* * Bill built small fires in three trees, and out of one 
of them came a family of three lemurs, the tiny hush babies of 
West Africa* Mona, Hussar and white nosed monkeys were plentiful all 
day, though I was unable to get another photograph of one. Bill 
collected insects all along the way, and one of the sights of the road 
was 0 to see him make a pass at a tiger beetle, with his butterfly 
net, miss it, and then have Pay-Pay, who was carrying the big camera 
on his head, stoop and catch it In his hand without dropping the 
camera or losing his balance* 
May 19 - 
In the morning a great hullaballoo broke out In the village, and 
crowds of people came swarming into our house, accompanying one young 
hunter who had captured a small duiker and brought it to us done up 
in a palm leaf cainje wrapped in nets* Bill paid him 17/6, gave him 
a drink of gin and a head' of tobacco, and there was general rejoicing. 
In the afternoon Fermatah and I went for a walk, with her helping 
me solicitously over the bridges on the trail. I was looking for 
small leaf beetles, and she delightedly went prancing about, young and 
graceful as a kitten, trying vainly to catch crickets and grasshoppers 
and squealing with laughter. 
Two mongooses arrived, and although we did not want them we 
bought them to encourage the -trappers* In the late afternoon, when 
I was trying to get a hath, a stream of people arrived, bringing 
a porcupine’ (first report was that it was a leopard), twh small birds, 
one snake, four little striped mice, three of which had been hit in 
the head and promptly died. 
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Today ?/e ate our ceremonial sheep, stewed for lunch and roasted 
for dinner. The doctors brought their cook with them, and he did 
a good job on the dinner* Roast lamb couldn’t have been any better at 
home, with proper oven temperature control, than it was when cooked 
over a small fire on the floor of a mud kitchen* 
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May 20 - The doctors left this morning after an early breakfast, also 
Mr. Paul, and we felt quite lonely* We went for a walk and caught 
more horn-flies, saw big hornbills and white nosed monkeys, arid smoked 
cut several hollo?/ trees, catching nothing more useful than a family 
of Thymalis, a horrible looking creature related to the spiders and 
scorpions* 
The day’s catch netted us one tiny baby monkey, which has to 
be fed milk from a syringe, four young white-necked crows, which have 
to be fed by hand, another porcupine and one large bullfrog* 
In the afternoon the Chief sent over a letter which he had 
just received from Colonel T. Ejwood Davis, the Superintendent of 
C-rand Cape Mount County, whom we had tried in vain to call on while 
we were in Cape Mount. The letter was so Interesting that ± asked 
the Chief’s permission to make a copy of it. 
