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As before, the country devil was at large, and when the 
story reached us it seemed that the devil was sitting by the water- 
side and we had a time getting our boys to go for water# After 
dinner the devil’s representative, a play devil or dancing devil, 
came in, and whirl ed about the small open space in front of our 
hut* He was dressed in layer after layer of raffia, and looked 
as much like a moving haystack as anything. On his head was a 
black, carved wooden mask with a tall spike on it. After dancing 
about for a few minutes he suddenly grew tall before our eyes; we 
thought at first that he was on stilts, but decided that he had a 
way of shooting up this mask from inside his raffia disguise. He 
was accompanied by a ragged escort carrying a tom white pennant; 
dr vans beat, and chanting rose, during all the evening, long after 
we had grown tired of watching and had gone to bed* 
April 4 - 
We Tire re off at 8,30, and from previous recollection of the 
trail expected to get to the end of the road beyond Kakata about 
two o’clock* To our great surprise we were there at 10*30 - so 
much difference in tine did a properly organized caravan, with 
proper hammock boys, make* On the way out our hammock frames were 
missing, we were trying to walk in noonday sun to which we were at 
that time una ecus t omed , and we could hardly believe that we had 
done in two hours what had taken us all afternoon before* 
Of course the trucks were not here yet* We sat by the road- 
side, ate lunch, and then decided to walk on until we met them* 
About 1*30 William, with the Seybolds ’ sedan, hove in sight, with 
one truck and then another close behind him. We got in the car, 
and were all as much surprised at the speed of an automobile, after 
hammock travel, as any savage would have been* Thirty miles an 
hour seemed absolutely reckless driving. 
In Kakata we stopped in a little shop, and enjoyed the luxury 
of cold beer* We sat on salt bags, set our beer mugs on a sewing 
machine, and thought that civilization had its comforts after all. 
It was good to turn our badly caged, hungry and thirsty 
animals over to Norris and Jermier in the rice shed* We had time 
for a brief glance at their collection, which was very good - many 
snake s , two or three new deer, a giant pangolin, six or seven feet long 
and weighing over fifty pounds, and an assortment of small mammals* 
April 5 - 
Shampooing, manicuring, sorting laundry, unpacking - these 
took most of the day. At four o’clock I went over to the hospital 
to have Dr. Campbell remove a chigger from my big toe* It had 
made itself a nice little nest in the cuticle, and although the 
removal was not painful, the thorough disinfecting he did afterward 
was far from pleasant. The toe throbbed afterwards the way one's 
jaw aches when a tooth has been pulled* 
April 6 - 
Mr. Vipond organized a big drive for game on one of the 
Isolated forest areas on the plantation. Twelve hundred boys, and 
