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1000 feet of net made a cordon around twenty acres of virgin bush. 
Many of the plantation people, including severed, women, came up to 
watch; a couple of them brought folding chairs, and it looked 
more like a tea party than a wild-animal chase# In the course of 
three hours one big harnessed antelope came almost into a net, then 
turned and ran away; one guinea fowl flew over the ladies * heads 
startling them into going home; and one little blue duiker was 
driven out into the open and captured, 
April 7 - 
Last night a horrible thing happened - driver ants got into 
the animal quarters beneath the Johnsons house, and before the 
men could get into action our new little duiker, and another one, 
were killed, Norris said the ants were swarming In its eyes and 
ears and way down its throat, and that the body 'was absolutely 
stiff fifteen minutes after the animal died# They fought them 
with fire and blow torches, and the boys got badly bitten and stung. 
Poor Roy had ^ nightmare s all night about it, and Bill gave orders 
that everything was to be moved to the rice shed, and elaborate 
ant -proofing precautions taken# Sawhorses and plants were ordered 
from the carpenter shop; all cages were set up on these, and the 
legs of the sawhorses were stood in kerosene tins full of crude oil. 
The Campbells took me into Monrovia to Church this morning, 
and we had a very pleasant time after Mass with the young Irish J 
priests (African Mission Society), Father Kennedy and Father 
Connell, They invited us to a good breakfast of fried eggs and 
sausages. 
In the evening Bill gave a talk on ants at the Club, which 
everybody seemed to like, 
April 8 - 
3ill and I spent all day in Monrovia, buying supplies for 
our next bush trip - groceries, kitchen utensils, another pressure 
lamp, . and searching vainly for a can opener. In this land where 
practically all food comes out of tin cans, there was not a single 
opener to be had, 
April 9 - 
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Up at five o ' clock, and ate an early breakfast. Just as we 
were finishing, word came from the District Commissioner at Kakata 
that he had not been able to send a messenger yesterday, and it 
would be better for us to postpone our trip another day, so that 
the people in the Gib I might have notice of our coming. We all 
felt let down, with the packing done and our hiking clothes on, 
and our fifty boys already on the road. However, there was no thing 
to do but let the boys wait for us at the river until to-morrow. 
Bill has a bad cold, and by evening I was glad we didn't 
start, as he was running a temperature of nearly l02. 
