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aroynd this place, waters white duck unifoOT coats and trousers, thought 
Oht the lights in our roc»i here as in Leo. are ceiling high with a 
smaller one over the basin, and a still dimmer bulb about 7 feet up on 
wall between beds, with wall switch so high you have to get out of the 
low bed to manipulate it. The ligiits are so high, there are no table 
or desk lamps, so we had to buy one for Baker to use witii his microscope, 
just a wire from with socket and siwrt cord. We have extension cord 
and bulbs with us, but had to get this before the boxes in whicn they 
were packed arrived. Did I tell you before? You folks had the right 
idea ccming by ship? It would have saved us sane time and several 
headaches so to speak. Without our collecting gear air travel is simple, 
with it your outfit goes ty ship and over here at least you have, we 
had trouble meeting it or rather it us. The bottle neck in the Belgian 
Congo is the railroad frcm Katadi. The amount of freight it hauls past 
the lower falls of the Congo from the sea-port to the navigable stretch 
of the river, that runs from Leopoldville to the Wagenia fishery cataract 
at Stanleyville, is inconceiveable almost, one train (more or less 
European style) after another all day and most of the night. Heavy freight 
seems to take precedence. At least over boxes which should have reached 
here before us, yet bogged down at Katadi and so came into Stanleyville 
by river steamer after us, missing the preceding steamer. All is 
straightened out now, though. 
I mentioned the totel boysj these blacks are everywhere and perform 
all sorts of tasks. Black male typists in banks and custcms houses 
(shed on dock and well as city offlcesj they ran the adding machines, 
and man the book keepers desks, clerk the stores, and are permitted 
and encouraged to perform any and all labor and tasks they Ceui master. 
What they learn and do they do well, but everyone tells us, and all tell 
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