60 IV. JULY, 1913— JANUARY, 1914 
was ready. A fortnight later the internal fitting up 
was practically finished, and Joseph and I left the fowl- 
house and settled in, my wife helping us vigorously. I 
owe hearty thanks for this building to Mr. Kast and 
Mr. Ottmann, the two practical workers of the Mission ; 
the former a Swiss, the latter a native of the Argentine. 
It was a great advantage that we could discuss all 
'details together, and that these two were willing to listen 
to the considerations, suggested by my medical know- 
ledge. Hence the building, although it is so plain and 
so small, is extraordinarily convenient ; every nook and 
corner is made use of. 
The building has two rooms, each 13 feet square, the 
outer of which serves as consulting room, the inner as 
operating theatre. There are also two small side rooms 
under the very wide projections of the roof : one is the 
dispensary, the other the sterilising room. The floor 
is of cement. The windows are very large and go right 
up to the roof. That prevents any accumulation of 
hot air at the top of the room, and every one is astonished 
to find how cool it is, although corrugated iron buildings 
are always condemned in the tropics as being intoler- 
ably hot. There is no glass in the windows, only fine 
wire netting to keep out mosquitoes, but there are 
wooden shutters outside, which are necessary on account 
of the storms. Along the walls run wide shelves, many 
of them of the rarest woods. We had no common 
boards left, and it would have cost much more to have 
had new ones sawn than to use even the most expensive 
that we had ready, besides throwing the work weeks 
backward. Under the roof white calico is stretched 
tightly as a protection against mosquitoes, which other- 
wise would find their way in through holes. 
