mm 67 - 
We had only been In the house a few minutes when Dr. Tate of 
the American Museum turned up. He has been marooned for six months 
in Gape Palmas, and only got to Eonriva now because Firestone insist- 
ed on the Barber Line rescuing George Seybold and the other planters 
there, and they all came up together on the Cathlamet. Tate has 
had even a harder time than, we have had in regard to permits, and is 
still trying to get the government's consent to his shooting two 
chimpanzees. 
«.* une 2 ' — 
Spent the morning at the rice shed, and were glad to find 
both hippos still flourishing, and two wild hogs added to the collec- 
tion. 
June 28 - 
The Seybolds and the Campbells were here for dinner, and we 
had a most pleasant evening. Much of the time liras spent discussing 
Wendell Willkie, who was nominated last night by the Republican 
Convention* Concensus of opinion; he can't best Roosevelt, if 
F.D.R. runs for a third term. 
* 
July 4 - 
The days drag by, waiting for news of our steamer* We here 
that It is having difficulty loading down the Coast on account of 
bad weather. Much of its cargo is limber, and when the surf is 
high it is i possible to get the big logs out from shore to the 
ship. Sometimes It takes two surf boats to tow one big log, and 
if a wave catches it and tosses It onto the boatmen serious injury 
or even death results. 
Bill is getting more bored and more restless every day. Life 
on the plantation is comfortable, but there is nothing 1 to do. The 
everlasting rubber surrounds us for miles on every side; continual 
rain keeps us from doing even what entomology and herpetology might 
be done here; the rice shed is too far away to be visited more than 
once a day. I enjoy the inactivity as little as he does, and spend 
most of my time playing solitaire, reading Sherlock Holmes and 
swimming once a day in the nice little pool In our back yard. 
Today was one Fourth of July I shall never forget. It began 
with having Mr, and Mrs. P allant here for breakfast. Mrs. Pallant 
an Englishwoman, is about to have a child, and because of severe 
pelvic injuries suffered In an automobile accident Is unable to 
have It normally® Dr. Campbell and Dr. Fusek, the two leading 
doctors here, both refuse jstex&KERaxx to perform the Caesarian that 
will be necessary, and want her to go to England or the States. She 
has tried to get into the hospital at Freetown, but they have turned 
her down also# She is frightened to go to England with the war news 
what It Is, and invasion threatened at any moment, and dreads taking 
a long sea trip to a country where she has no friends or relatives® 
$he decided last night to take the Barber boat to Freetown today 
and see if a personal appeal to the hospital there would not have 
better results than the letter she sent previotisly; then we talked 
her into agreeing to go to the States, preferably to Johns Hopkins. 
