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Baker and I room together, and the flush system didn't function, and 
as we have since found, the basin had only one spigot cold, as in 
about all the places we've stopped so far, except in Paulis the next 
place on our itinerary, and the Sabena Guest House idiere we lived while 
in Stanl^nrille. This last was the newest and most modern in all 
respects, but strictly an overnite place for the plane (Sabena) 
passengers, -beds, tables, chairs, but just a rack with four attached 
coat hangers for clothes, no dressers or chest of drawers of any kind,- 
there was a low stand for a suitcase, -and shower aixi toiled, tiled, - 
all well lighted which few of the places have been. 
Dinner in Nia Nia was good, we were tired and hungry, the usual 
meal, soup, a cold fish course, meat and potatoes, and cheese for 
dessert (sometimes one gets a pudding f small slice of cake 
(such as it is in same places) or a banana. The great problem 
everyidiere is drinking water. Dr. Sexton brought along some iodine 
tablets with ^diich one can safely sterilize (for drinking purposes) 
even very polluted water , if allowed to sit for a half hour after 
the tablet has been dropped in,-with an occasional ahake,-l to a qt. 
Have I written all this— Tetraglyoine hydroperiodide (Wallace & Tieman 
Inc., Belleville 9, New Jersey)? Works like a cham, at very first 
you may notice a slight iodine taste but later not at alii it's just 
grand to have when you HM. can't be sure of even the boiled water 
one finds in rooms and on dining tables. We each carry a canteeni 
at meals one buys mineral "soda” water j that's standard and safe. 
When I went to fill my canteen in the Nia-Nia hotel from the tap, 
everybody (the hotel personnel) was horrified and insisted that I take 
boiled water fran kitchen or dining room table. They would not accept 
my explanation of how our tablets would render it fit to drink. We 
