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We went down to the vrktxtcycxitimk warehouse and found our animals 
were ss.f ely loaded on a "big truck, so we headed out to the plantation, 
reaching Vi's in time for one of his country chop Sunday lunches. 
There v/ere ten at lunch, and although nobody remembered the wording 
exactly, it seems that a rad.io was received about our first shipment 
detailing an appalling number of losses - the pigmy hippo, the 
baby leopards, and the giant pangolin. The report is that both 
Warren Buck and Philip Carroll were on board - the latter with 500 
monkeys and 50 chimps - so it is possible that Roy had a bad time 
- he certainly had hard luck. We also were told that Norris got 
another hippo, but it died on the way in from Fakata. 
Little Bernice went to Cape Palmas with George, and. they have 
no idea now when they will be able to get back, as no one knows what 
the Dutch ships will do. Big Bernice has been in the hospital twice, 
and is still feeling pretty miserable. 
June 3 - 
Spent the morning unpacking, writing letters and typing notes. 
The unpacking was discouraging - everything that we left here is 
covered with mildew - dresses, shoes and leather bags are simply 
green with the stuff. The rainy season seems to have begun in earnest, 
and the climate is worse than ever - even though it is cooler. 
A fine hippo came in yesterday, bigger and better than the one 
we had before. Also a nice young rat el. 
June 5 ~ 
In our rattletrap old Ford, we went into Monrovia this after- 
noon and did a lot of errands, paying up bills, and calling on the 
American Charge d 'Affaires. We had prepared for his files a careful 
record of our Cape Mount trip. In the evening we went to the Mamba 
Point House, the Humber One establishment of the Firestone Company, 
occupied by George and Nina Blowers. It is a beautiful place, well 
outside of town, and overlooking the sea. We had dinner with them 
and spent the night. 
June 6 ~ 
The Bishop sent his launch, in charge of Captain Seddon, down 
to the Government wharf this morning, and in about an hour we were 
at Bromley, on the St. Paul River. This is another of the Episcopal 
Missions here} was originally a school for Liberian girls, under 
government supervision until the Mission took it over. It is still 
a girls' school, and the majority of the pupils (there are about 
eighty all together) are Liberians, as contrasted with bush girls. 
The Bishop and his wife have an attractive small house and 
a guest house. These are built of mud, with plenty of matting in 
the midst of the mud to hold It together, and then covered with a 
thin layer of cement# Both houses are principally verandah, with 
bedroom and bath opening off. Our little guest house contained also 
a small oratory* These are fine tropical houses, suiting the environ- 
ment, cool with many arched windows and doors, and should last a long 
time. The floors are cement, and curtains, bedspreads and cushions 
are of country cloth. 
