Bukavu mailing of 5/lli/55, oont. 
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Mr, Mich4 could not do too much for us. After the forenoon 
"exploring** for pictures of wild animals he took ua home to lunch. 
The layout and architecture, especially interiors, of the home 
the Oovernment builds for its administrators are worth a trip to the 
Congo alone, — fraught with ideas for interior decorating, 
and proportions of rooms, most of than most pleasing. This is one 
phase of the tjrip we've overlooked and not until I write this to you 
at this late date do I think of it. Van Straelen‘s name works magic 
in the government reservations and would do so again for you if you 
should come this way to see what we've seen and shall try to 
reproduce for you pictorially. I'd love to have you have lunch at 
Michi's place and I know he and his wife would extend you the same 
hospitable welcome given us. Yes, this park and these people and 
their home was the highlight of the trip,— not to forget walking 
(almost) with that white rhino •'look Ma no guns**, either. I would 
that I could have made the same e3q>erience, yours. After anothiKT 
sleep under the mosquito nets at Gangala and a Coleman lantern lit 
ii. breakfast at 5 a.m. we lit out for Hioka, one of our longest daily 
hops — 300 miles, and no time for stops, 
Tes, I'm way ahead of myself. Though much disappointed in the 
shrimp returns as sudh, we are making scientific hay. Of course 
est 
the omnipresent mites will locrni large/in our ultimate reports on 
results, — and these microscopic organisms can be found in 
great variety and on most species of plants , wild and cultivated if 
not sprayed,— and tropical plant mites have gone virtually without 
