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Another district, Thomas town, of 586 acres, went for 
£43 for survey fees and the promise of a ten-room, two-storey 
zinc house for Chief Thomas • 
This is the only time I have kept accounts for an expedition 
where I have charged up gin and whiskey as legitimate expenses. 
"Dash to the Chief" appears on nearly every page, and it seems most 
of the time to us that we get darn little for it* 
April 21 - 
Sunday, and an opportunity of hearing Mass for the second 
time since we left home. Father Coleman from Owen ' s Grove came 
over to the plantation and a dozen or more of us met at the 
Hagartys 1 house. 
Both Bernices had planned to go into Monrovia this morning 
to see the Brocketts ofl on the Zarembo. >ord came however th at 
fere ship would not he in until o.oQ, so after they were all ready 
to go, with. sandwiches packed for lunch, they decided to stay here 
until the middle of the afternoon. Bernice made champagne cock- 
tails, we ate the sandwiches, and Bill made Mexican mole. Instead 
of three for lunch there were twelve. When Bernice came back from 
Monrovia at midnight, she said the Brocketts, with their two-year- 
old child, were still sitting on the dock waiting for an onportunitv 
to get out to the ship. ' 
Bill and I went to the Club here in the evening, and saw 
a very boring Shirley Temple picture - the first time "either of 
us had ever seen her, and I hope it will be the last. 
April 22 - 
Bill went into Monrovia to get permission to go to the 
Polish Plantation at lepoota tomorrow . I spent the morning between 
the rice shed and the store, getting provisions together, and the 
afternoon packing our tin trunks. 
.About four- thirty Bobo showed up. We had sent him up to 
'' M ho.e uibi, and given him nets, derris root, and preserva- 
tive, so that in case Vi got permission to go up the mountain Bobo 
could collect fishes for the Museum. Bobo * s black f ace was a beam. 
He had three large ^ars so full of closely packed specimens that some 
of them were beginning to decay. He said they had got up the 
mountain, and. that these had been caught about half-way un« Later 
Vi came in and told us the story, of how he had palavered for five 
days, of how the Chief had agreed for four pounds dash to let them 
go up the sacred mountain, of how his sub -Chief had refused, and the 
dash was returned. On the fifth night Vi had gotten as far as 
Garmaite J-own at the base of the mountain, and despaired of getting 
any farther. He asked the village to put on a devil dance ^ and 
while all the ^men were watching this, Bobo slipped out, with a lantern, 
and got some fish from the stream at the base of the mountain, Vi 
said he was afraid for Bobo, because there was no telling what the 
natives would ha^'e done to him if they had caught him "poisoning" their 
sacred water. The next day Vi found that one'of his former employes 
was a brother of the Chief, end through birr finally permission 
