6/2A5 
Long about 8:30, shortly after we sat down to supper an upward 
bound steamer halted near us and we sent over in our row boat dinghy, 
the man who checked our tickets when we got aboard this steamer. It 
seems that he is the steamboat dampanjr’s '‘inspector” for the stretch 
from here to Juba. I can't believe that rather forsaken looking 
Salem Banga has anything to do with boundaiy lines, it's just 4 ^^$ 
that upward and downward bound steamers happen to pass in this neighborhood 
6/it/55 
Almost pleasant teiaoreature contrast with yesterday. 8U degrees 
at 6 a.m. nndovercast at 7, a light shower. The rainy season is late 
and but feebly trying to assert itself. Each day the river or at least 
the channel of it that we are traversing is getting wider, the days 
except this forenoon, warmer, and the grass more parched and dried out 
looking. The level land back to the scattered trees is quite yellow 
looking because of the dried grass, the soil is no longer so much 
black dobie, trees are getting more plentiful but never forming anything 
resembling a forest or wood lot such as we have at home no longer exists 
herej it must have in the past. It does seem that reforestation should 
be attempted. To think of it why don’t they try eucalyptus. Pollock 
says it does grow well, and there are 3<xn plantings about the missions. 
■nie Belgian s have gone in heavily for eucalyj^tus for fire wood, and 
I«ve seen some shed trusses built of it reinforced with thin sheet iron 
that from the looks of it had been hammered flat from old gasoline drums. 
(This was at Mulungu in the Congo, ) 
