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The Ppnthierville trip out of Stanleyville we had to oaneel for 
accOTinodations there; the time has not been wasted. The oanoejf 
ftip by natives wsia made and filmed by the Sextons and sound recorded 
but this last did not amount to much, more native chattering than singing 
Tou’ll be hearing 
rushing of the water over the rocks and through the nets at the Wagenia 
Falls. Today the 22nd vfas our second and last day at customs and we 
have ©xne away to do as we list minus the money deposited. We hope to 
get it all back State Dept, and Belgian government willing. Saturday 
night and Sunday night we had planned to visit the langambi agricultural 
research station l50 miles down stream frcr- here, but after we got here 
we received word that the folks there were sending a station wagon for 
us, leavi.ng here at 8 a.m. We are packing tonite for that 2 nights 
at Tangambi trip. I really wish you were here to take it in. We flew 
over the place on the banks of the Congo in the heart of the forested 
area \tiere they are trying out and Improving the agricultural development 
of this part of the "dark continent? Along vrith all this Dr. Baker, 
who went along several times to the Wagenia fishery found a little 
garden patch of sugar cane in one of the back yards (behind the house 
area) that was heavily infested i^ith mites, so much so it was showing 
signs of wi . Now at Tangambi we want to see what they have in 
healtly sugar cane, and what mites, if any, it carries there. The Kight 
Mites is another film sequence we hope to get together if we get the 
breaks on filming Baker's work and some of the mites he*s seen and 
collected. We even brought along a Museum microscope in hopes of getting 
