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April 15 - 
Dr, Tengwall left us soon after "breakfast, and set off with 
the few porters the Chief had been able to get for him. We had 
considered going back today, but were told that we would have to 
wait until tomorrow to get the number of men we wanted, 
Bernice and Ralph on their morning stroll found a fine 
green tree viper and brought it back with them, coiled around the 
end of a stick, 
I felt lazy and tired all day, and never left our little 
hut. By evening I was aching all over, and feeling chilly, and 
went to bed in the pleasant conviction that I was coming down with 
fever, 
April 16 - 
Seem to have no fever, but a slight cold, due, probably, to 
the dampness of our mud house. We were up at daylight, and packed 
and ready to take to the road by eight-thirty, Johnny Harbor* s boys 
lined up all our loads, but we had not kept enough men with us to 
carry them, and must perforce wait for the porters the Chief had 
promised us. Slowly the morning wore on, and we got more and more 
indignant at the delay. The Chief, through the interpreter, told 
us that he had sent to two of the neighboring villages for twenty 
carriers for us, but knowing by now how ‘'Africa creeps", we had 
little hope of them materializing. Bernice and Ralph finally started 
ahead. It was ten thirty before Bill and I saw the last load on 
a man's head, and were assured that there were eight men left over 
for our hammocks. Bill fell and bumped his knee yesterday, and 
is too lame to walk today, and I was a bit weak from my chill last 
night. We were barely out of the village, however, when one of my 
hammock boys deserted on the pretense of a sore toe, and I had to 
walk to the third village before getting another man. Flomo, our 
jewel of a steward boy, volunteered to be hammock boy, and I let him 
for a few minutes, but felt ashamed of myself, for that is certainly 
not his work. 
The ill-assorted hammock crews made slow progress - not like 
the trip up where we had boys we knew, and who could work well 
together. We sent two hammocks and their crews on ahead to catch up 
with Ralph and Bernice, but from time to time we would overtake 
the hammocks peacefully resting in the shade along the trail, 2 
They never did catch up, and the two walked the whole 17 miles to 
the river. 
Half way in we met Mr. Vipond, who was on his way to the 
same town to see if he could get up the mountain. We wished him 
luck, and rather doleTully assured him that he needed it. 
We reached the riverside about four-thirty, but it was 
an hour before all the loads were in, and ferried across the river, 
and put in the waiting trucks, and the Gibi men paid a shilling 
apiece for their day’s work - ninepence for walking in today with 
a load, threepence for walking back tomorrow without one. 
