July 8 
Today we learned that little Miss True from Cape Mount, who 
was to have sailed with us on the West Imo, Is dead of fever in_ 
Monrovia and to he buried in Bromley® It Is a great shock, for we 
were genuinely fond of her and had looked forward to having her 
as a companion on the homeward voyage* Now as far as we know there 
afe only the c Cloned missionaries* 
George changed the plantation time on July 5th to Croenwieh 
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Mean Time - a sort of daylight savin 
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geaaent, though everyone 
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says he did it so that he could get the ish broadcasts without 
having to calculate the 45 minutes’ difference • They had quite 
a t* e explaining it to the labor force; ’’To-morrow, " the bosses 
said, ’’it will be dorker whan vou come to work*” M .ihv it be more 
dark tomorrow?" "Because we change the sun 
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Yesterday Vi had a crowd in for country chop, as usual on 
Sunday* Just as we sat down to table, the sound of children crying 
came up to us* Vi was furious* He called Cooper and said "Get 
those children away from here," and to us he added, "They’re trying 
to take advantage of me because I have company today® I’ve told them 
I don't care how many women they keep out In back, but I won 1 1 have 
the children aroimd - they make too much noise®" Cooper went out 
and came back, his black face screwed up tight in his usual, expression 
of being about to burst* "Boss," he said, "no be pickin - be goat*" 
And sure enough, they were the goats that VI had commissioned Bobo 
to buy; Bobo had left them loose in the yard* 
July 10 - 
Day after day drags by while we wait for news of the Vest 
Irmo* Today they assure us It will be in on the 13th - Saturday - 
and we had better go down to Monrovia Friday night in case it is 
to sail at daybreak* There is no cargo except our animal s , and 
the ship is not stopping at Marshall* Bill continues to worry 
about the feasibility of loading hippopotami In surf boats* 
Tate 
Wharton, who 
forthcoming * 
at any rate is hopeful' : he had lunch today with 
says he has verbal assurance that the permits will 
be 
This afternoon Mr* P allant arranged a stilt dance for us 
in his labor village* We had to wait around until It was almost 
too dark to takephotographs, but eventually the dancer appeared, 
being carried down the village street and sat on the roof of a 
house to get his long legs in place® He was a good acrobat, and 
made a weird effect with stilts about six feet long, tight white 
trousers, a grass skirt, and his head covered with a black mask of 
cloth® Bill got a laugh at the end when he jumped on a boy’s 
shoulders and was carried pickaback down the street and held up in 
the air to give the dancer his dash® 
July 12 - 
spent the day by the telephone waiting for news of the 
West Irmo* At four o’clock we abandoned the idea of going into 
Monrovia tonight, as the ship was not yet heard from® About five 
