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with Leopoldville an easier place to live in. The show place is a 
Catholic church of unique design described not so long ago in TiiBe 
and there the natives^ sing a Congo H/mn or chant I'd give anything 
to hear. We did not have that good luck. On the litth April Thursday 
we had (or were invited) to speak at the American Club^ a luncheon 
group of some UO-60 English speaking people who meet once a month in 
the local aoo restaurant. Served one of the best meals I had in all 
Leopoldville except the two dinners given for us by the American 
Consul and later the vice consul in their respective homes. The 
dwellings are roomy and high ceilinged and correspondingly cool during 
the day. This residentiAl architecture is inside quite different from 
what we have in the States. We did get around to do a little collecting 
in the local botanic garden, got some soil samples too, -expect in the 
course of the trip to amass quite a number,— yes, for future anti-biotics , 
if we'r lucky with our sampling. The l6th was "get-ready" day for the 
move by air to Stanleyville, said to be hotter and more humid than Leo, 
This was a marvelous flight high over the African Jungle Lands. At 
first much open countiy where farming and the gathering of wood had 
destroyed the forest but as we got up toward Coquilhatville the open 
spaces were fewer and the forest denser, Here and there a pillar 
of anoke where scsne native was clearing a bit of land in the wilderness, 
but otherwise endless miles of forest land, vast stretches of trees as 
far as the eye could see, and through it all winding back and forth, 
the mighty river stream, vast mud shoals of bright red (old Virginia 
clay like) soil. We landed in Stanleyville at ii p.m. and were walked 
across the street to the Sabena Guest House where this is being written 
on the 20th. Believe it or not, our boxes shipped from New York a 
month earlier were still not here, and not due till the 20th, but from 
