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May 30 - 
A letter was waiting for us yesterday when we got in* asking 
Bill to call on Superintendent Davis as soon as possible. This we 
did, and found him to be an affable Kansas City negro, wirh rnillroi. e 
service in the background. He told us that there had keen area 
excitement over our' association with the Germans on the Benda j a, that 
one alarmist in Cape Mount had written to the President, about it, anl 
the President had asked Davis what was up. _ _ Davis saia. he: invo: sti 
p*qted thoroughly and had. sent another and correct repor ^ ^ 
President', and he felt sure that everything was straightened out now. 
Then he handed us a letter from Wharton, our Charge d Affaires 
Monrovia, in which we were requested to return to Monrovia a once 
because of certain matters which had been brought to his at ten 
officially by the Liberian Government, vYe were up se^ over ‘ “ 
it sounded as though Monrovia was taking these wild stories serio -sly. 
prom the various Cape Mount residents we learned that we had 
nohml Iv been accused of heading a German expeditionary force into 
the hinterland and towards the English border; that we were armed with 
eight high-powered rifles | that Bill, suspiciously eixough, -.9 
German* Evidently the requested spies had been on the ,ob, for 
Davis knew all about our trip, even to the fact .chat we nad bee 
digging something or other out of bug- a- bug nests. 
We called on Miss McKenzie in the course of the . day, ana, had 
palm butter chop with the Germans at Paul’s in the evening. 
May 31 - 
Bill gave a talk on ants to the school children tnis morning. 
At the end he "asked if there were any questions, ana there were a 
surprising number, most of them very intelligent questions, s ™ing 
t£at the‘ boys and girls were interested in insects and observed tnem 
accurately." The school is a fine institution, vitn dormitories, 
class rooms, a big dining hall, a chapel, assembly room,, and good 
library. 
We had lunch with Miss McKenzie, and just after lunch noticed 
that our fishing boat had come in, although we had not expected it 
until tomorrow. 
We spent most of the afternoon waiting for news^oi^wnen 
Wfi ohoul d sail. Miss Jolly came by looking lor the Bishop, _ she 
understood he had capsized coming ashore, but nobody knew which way 
he had gone after he landed on the beach. It wao five o cl.ck l u. ,. A . 
Captain Rosen and Dr. Kahl came over and began to make P-f 1 ^ - r 
tomorrow. We have to leave Gape Mount in time to make tne - 
at Monrovia, otherwise it will be impossible to cross t , ‘ . 
After endless discussion it was decided to leave in the ® Lmlhe 
and I set to in frantic haste to get pac; e< • _ h • ,y | ,, Ken , 1e 
hill to Paul’s to ask for two surf # boats, and up ^ ^f^cKenz 
_ B if f OT . her school bovs as carriers. Then we went ao/m.io cue 
Huygens’ for dinner, and" that meant climbing up the mountain again 
■ho crpif, home# 
