Bukavu mailing of 5AV55, cont. 
We spent the night of May 1st and breakfast and lunch of May 2nd 
at Nioka,-also a motel type of place- two rows of brick pavilions, they 
call than here, and at the head, the dinigg hall, lounges, 
bar, and service facilities. The lodges, or little houses, had ante 
room, bed roan and bath, with toilet (most places the latter is apart 
and sometimes out of the back door). Meals are more generous as to 
variety and helpings the further you’re away frcsn the larger towns, 
it seems. Here in Nioka for the first time delicious ripe papayas for 
breakfast,— strawberries for dessert at dinner. The hot water system 
though customary, as we have learned, struck us as unique— small 
ccsnpact brick hearth (or furnace?) with 
above. When heated good and hot in 
it stays sufficiently warm till the / 
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bath or shaving though the nights get 
so they seem. At "ft 70 or 72 degrees outside the water stays warm 
enough for bath and shaving. Beside the hot water drws is one for 
cold water, both are piped to the proper spigot inside house, and 
though tub, (showers are rare) has hot and cold, the wash basin usually 
has cold tap only. It rained the afternoon, evening, and night at 
Nioka clearing by morning for the run to Bunia where we were to have 
the cars (auto and truck) serviced, but the Ford place, a very bu^ one 
was too busy to take us on. And since we’ve had a little oil pirnip 
trouble which will have to be attended to at first opportunity. Bunia 
‘1 
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an oil drum 
the evening 
morning for 
ooolish, or 
was intermediate stop on our way to the Kasenyi fishery already 
mentioned above. We arrived in Bunia at U*30 p.m. on the 2nd left 
next morning ( ) for Kasexiyi. It’s here we got a good haul 
of fish as the fish boat had just ccme in,— later in the morning the 
fishermen hauled my little seine for me and netted a number of smaller 
