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April 17 - 
Bill and I went over to the rice shed to see what Roy 
had acquired while we were away# There are some new antelope - 
one harnessed and a couple of duikers -another chimp, giving us 
four altogether, a fine monkey-eating eagle, and a pygmy hippo . 
which was sent to us by Commissioner Clark who had been so active 
in our behalf in Belleyella. It is a baby, but old enough to 
be eating cassada leaves and rice as well as drinking a quart or 
so of milk a day* Roy had built It a pen with a good-sized pool, 
and we were p.1 eased with our new acquisitions* Every cage is now 
up on planks that rest on sawhorses, and the legs are Immersed in 
five-gallon kerosene tine full of crude oil, to keep drivers away. 
April 18 - 
Bill left early in the morning to watch another drive 
on the same patch of jungle that was driven once before* He was 
gone all morning and reported that they had captured one live 
duiker and one dead harne s s ed antelope (the latter killed by the 
natives before the white men could get to it)* 
George and Bernice are both sick, and Dr. Campbell came 
over and insisted on treating everybody, turning the house into 
a regular hospital. He took blood smears from all of us, removed 
a chigger from my toe, and gave me a eeeM shot of something that 
is supposed to clear up my persistent cough* 
April IS - 
Up early, and Bernie and I took a five mile walk before 
breakfast* We get plenty of exercise when we are in the bush but 
I miss it when we are on the plantation. 
Life on the plantation is interesting, and we are constantly 
being amazed at the variety of details that have to be taken care of 
by the manager of the plantation. George at the moment is working 
hard at acquiring new land for rubber, and the process of buying it 
from the native Chiefs is not like any other real'estate operations 
in the world* A recent deed transferring the town, of Bazon, with a 
population of 150 people, and covering 500 acres, listed the follow- 
ing as the purchase price: 
Survey fees J» 44 
Commission, 8 towns 8 
Dash 1 
One bottle whiskey 
One tin of cane juice 
One 12-gauge gun 
100 shells 
One cane juice mill with 40-gallon tank 
For this was received: 
One village 
Seven half towns 
The devil bush 
