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some of these tiny depredators on filra. As an aside a mite which affects 
wheat in the midwest at home caused 17 million dollars in damage to the 
crop in one year. DDT spraying cured the trouble there. That's ’idiat's 
so wonderful about the mite part of this expedition of yours, all these 
mites we are gathering are potential enemies of plants and crops back 
home and the more we can learn about their whereabouts, the plants they 
affect, the better we can cope with them when trouble comes, I haven't 
been so lucky with my shrimps, the fisheries man in Leopoldville gave me 
a gloomy picture, but a missionary I met in a store today said the 
natives in their vicinity some miles north of here made quite an article 
of diet of than. I've been in writing some official letters and this 
note to you. Sexton and son photographed the oanoing natives and Baker 
got mites along shore. Tonite we pack for tomorrow, the 25th we take 
off auto and truck for Nia-Nia and points east and north of here. It's 
too bad you can't see with your eyes some of the tilings we are seeing. 
I want to write more, I owe it to you but have to keep this outfit 
moving and packed. In saae ways I'm hand maiden to the group but I 
want the utmost out of thaa for the emedition's and the Staithsonian's sake. 
