The house is a pleasant one, of mud covered with cement, with 
cement floors, and a zinc roof. There is a very large living room 
and two bedrooms. The kitchen is a separate building - a little 
mud hut, - and there is a pleasant little wash house of matting and 
that ch, with a toilet and a shower - the shower bucket was still 
hanging from a cord. The last man who left the place got a sudden 
chance at a passage home , and did not stop to pack up more than his 
personal belongings. Consequently we were always coming across some 
strange item that had been left behind in this deserted 
farm house. The furniture consisted of several tables, big comfortable 
chairs, wardrobes, two desks, and. a cot, but in cupboards and on desks 
were such remnants as two half -empty bottles of I. aggi and one of 
Worcestershire, a well -crystallized radio storage battery, a bunch of 
porcupine quills, various chemicals used in photographic developing 
and printing, three boxes of anti-venin, a meat grinder, coffee mill, 
two filters, large framed photographs of Pilsudski and the President 
of Poland, a jar of Dutch mustard, an onyx cup with shot, an alarm 
clock, a stack of phonograph records, and, most pitiful of all, a 
strip of fly-paper with last year's flies still clinging to it. 
Charlie the cook had a hot supper for us as soon as we got 
into the house and settled; Flomo put up our cots; we bathed under 
the shower bucket, and Matilda, Bill and. I went early to bed. Louis 
however, went out immediately after dinner to hunt. Although we were 
asleep when he came in, we learned later that he had shot a red 
deer (harnessed antelope ) less than half an hour's walk from the 
house. 
June 22 - 
We ate, with considerable relish, deer liver, bacon and 
onions for breakfast, and then set out on a trail across the plantation 
which David, the caretaker, said led to a small stream. It was about 
an hours walk, but it was a nice creek to fish, so Bobo and FI omo 
put in the Derr is root, set up the net, and waded up and down for 
about three hours catching the fish. When we got back to the house 
and Bill put the specimens in alcohol he found he had 400. 
Natives brought us one sooty mangaby, one turtle and a baby 
porcupine today. 
We continued to live on venison, having it stewed for lunch 
and roast for dinner. We were also able to buy a bowlful of fresh- 
green okra, and all the pineapples we wanted, and three chickens - 
so I think we will live well here • 
June 23 - 
Louis had promised to take me on a real bush trip, so he and 
I started out immediately after breakfast, crossed the plantation to 
the Banga trail, and eventually turned off of that onto a bush trail • 
It was the first time I had covered any real distance in the bush, 
and I was pleased to find that I could follow Louis and the hunters 
all morning, bending low where the forest was densest, clambering 
up hills over mossy stones, crossing little jungle streams on stepping 
stones. We saw both monkeys and deer, but not at close enougn range to 
shoot. We got back to the house at lunch time, and found that t e 
boys had cut a fine trail direct from the house into the nearest bush. 
They had actually cleared nearly two miles of fairly broad road, and 
