Bukavu mailing of 5M/55, cent. 
Gangala-na~Bodia is vrell worth a visit, but you pioneer \ihea you go. 
Though th^ are building a guest house to be finished, I believe, next 
year, they are hardly prepared for visitors. We were given the run 
Of a small house rather bare of everything, including furniture, but 
enough chairs and beds, including a couple of cots moved in. We had 
permission from headquarters, governor of colony and from National 
Parka head, van Straelen in Bruxelles, so we were given a friendly 
welcOTne, within their "power" to put us up. The kitchen was a little 
house in the "back-yard" with black "b<^" and helper to cook, wait on 
us, and make beds. But food? Ihe man who arranged autos and hotel 
stops was supposed to see that this was provided, but failed to do 
so. Flour for bread, they let us have at the Station, but except for 
srane odds and ends in our car trunk that we carried for emergencies, 
Nescafe, etc,, we had to depend on the native "cantinai" so they called 
it, though name is Spanish as can be. The black shop keeper had a 
miscellaneous but limited lot of canned goods, crackers, toast in cans, 
"hot dogs" canned in Belgium, U cans Canpbells soup frcm the States, 
some of Libby* 8 canned fruits, strawberry preserves in glass, just two 
of then though, 3 little cans of milk and also Nescafe, we about bought 
him out. The cans were old and in part rusty, dusty and battered. 
You punched at the tops to be sure they were not "bloaters" and you ate 
and enjoyed the ccnitents. We did and had a grand time eating in the 
half-dark, by the light of a Colesnan lantern hung from a wire from the 
ceiling in the next, front rocan. Tes, dishes of a sort were there, 
and had linens, clean and in plenty. As we have, since leaving Stanlesnrlllo 
we slept under mosquito nets. They've been the rule since. As aroujih 
and ready as we found everything, it was a treat and a lark, and you 
