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palaver sounded like a Harlem riot, and delayed our getting on the 
road until 9 o ’clock* 
We stopped at two villages during the morning, to explain to the 
peonle that we wanted animals, and would buy any they £ 0 x 1 
our return journey. In the second village, where we ate luncn x 
high, raised palaver kitchen, a baby chimpanzee was brought toua. 
It was an emaciated baby, but with a good coat of hair, s*d ap parent: Ly 
in good condition except for bexng "dry” - pidgin_ English for tnxn. 
We bought it for h 1 - 10, and J offered to let it ride with her in 
her hammock. 
Soon after lunch we entered high bush, and took such a narrow 
winding forest trail that we were quite sure we were lost. The u.ees 
were so close together that it was impossible to get the hammocks 
fh?ourh so thev were carried turned up sideways, and we walked all 
SSoSn! It wasLool and shady in the OUk Jungle, and we found 
walking was quite pleasant as contrasted with yestexday s Lot sandy 
road. 
The bovs like to stop about three in the afternoon, but it was 
five when we came to the St. Paul River, and nearly six before our 
loads were paddled across* in enormous dug-out canoes* to Dob lx s 
I°l^d (Din?“ Where we s^ent the night. The Island is the Pre«iest 
v-maffe in Liberia, with the finest rest house, a Dig nouse, mud bo oe 
IS! but with la?ge windows, two big rooms and two small ones. One 
was our living-dining room, one the bath room, and the Ouiiei ^ »o 
bedrooms.” We° carry a large tin bath tub with us, a rubber mat and 
a semare of tarpaulin. Every night the bathtub is fx-led with 
mater for us, and we luxuriate after the heat and dust of the day. 
The "onlv difficulty is that the light of a kerosene lancern is 
insufficient, and in the gloom you feel awfully unprotected against 
solders and scorpions; and the fact that all floors are plain mud 
aSd probably infested with chiggers and hoo^ormnecessitatesa great 
of careful, balancing to get your feet dry without stepping on 
b5fg?ouSS: Su Send ol one leg in the tub, and tape you won't lose 
your balance before you slip the dry foot in a bedroom sl-pper. 
The local school teacher, dressed in European clothes and 
sneaking good English, spent most of the evening with us, do did h e 
Paramount Chief, Barclay, who wore the handsome native robe of wove 
blue and white cotton. They promised to _ have many animals for us on 
our return — even bongo being &. possibility# 
Townspeople brought a young hornbill, which ate ravenoiisly, 
and screamed for more, and a tiny squirrel or dormouse, which ate and 
drank out of my hand, and curled up in my hana oO sleep, xb is a 
three-inch miniature of our grey squirrels at home, perhaps a little 
more reddish, with a beautiful bushy tail, bright eyes, and extreme 
friendliness. 
J complains bitterly that the baby chimp pinches, ^ut agrees 
to let it travel one more day in the hammock. ihe chimp has e t 1 
hPd no milk since it was taken away from its mother, and we had, a 
bSS ?L.e 'getting any milk into it, ^ally managing with a 
ear syringe, which seems to be a far better way feeding Daoy am, ais 
And the old standby of bottle and nipple. 
