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April 26 - 
Bill and I spent the morning out at the Research Department, 
where Dr. Mclndooand Dr. Tengwall work with problems of plant intro- 
duction. We saw large pineapple fields, palm nuts, young rubber, 
and papaya, as well as trial beds of beans, cucumbers, sweet com 
and other vegetables from temperate climates. Cucumbers do very well 
here, and are surprisingly crisp and firm. 
In the afternoon we went over to the rice shed, and made some 
final pictures of the animals that are to be shipped on the next 
boat. The four little chimps are in fine shape, even ,f Libby who 
was so sick on the way back from Belleyella is strong and husky. now, 
the only difference between her and the others being that she. still 
has to be fed with a syringe, while the other three drink their milk 
from a big pan, all of them diving into it together. Two of them have 
the same trick as our two little ones at home, walking about together 
with their arms around each other, and 'unhappy if they are separated* 
One male chimp is quarrelsome, but the four live in one big cage 
together - when they are not roaming about at liberty. The little 
Diana from Kakata is a darling,* Bill took a movie of her sitting on 
my shoulder pulling out my hairpins. 
April 27 - 
All day the house resounded to the strains of Rigoletto. 
GeDDge had offered to loan the Club his set of records, and to 
discourse briefly on the opera. If they wanted a musical evening. 
We went over at eight o'clock, and George told the story of the 
opera and how it came to be written, and then played the whole score 
through on the phonograph. It was interesting In itsel 1 ', o f course, 
but doubly so as showing how versatile George Is. Only yesterday he 
was deep in discussion of poultry farming with Dr. Campbell, and 
drawing up plans for a new club house with one hand and a chicken 
house with the other. He knows almost as much about ancient Egyptian 
history as he does about rubber; he reads Freud and books on Coramurn* am 
he understands broadcasts in Dutch and German; and writes book reviews 
and editorials for Blanter’s Punch. 
April 28 - 
Dr. Fuszek, the Hungarian doctor who has spent twenty years 
practising in konrovia, came out to see our animals, so that he can 
give them a clean bill of health when we sail. Fe had palm butter 
chop with us at the house. In the evening we went over to the 
Club and saw the movie "Three Blind Mice" with Loretta Young and 
Joel McCrea. 
April 29 — 
We were down at the waterside at nine o ' clock, just as the 
first truck load of animals arrived from the rice shed. Dr, Mclndoo 
drove down with a load of bananas, avocados, pineapples and greens. 
Roy came in another truck, with his tin trunk, and several rice 
bags full of souvenirs - devil masks, country cloth, and native knives* 
