U/23/55, cont. (part of U/22 letter) 
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carbonated water ('’soda”), but we have canteens into which we drop an 
iodine tablet, 1 to the qt. Dr. Sexton brought and reconmends thcra, 
will take care of all harraful contamination (animal or parasitic) 
after a 10-20 minute period, so thoroughly he claims that the worst 
polluted water can be made sterile enough to drink of safely, of 
course chemical pollution is another thing, but ”bugs" (bacteria, 
amoebae, typhoid or Wxhat have you ,) succumb to the iodine treatment more 
certainly than to boiling or even the halozone tablets (a chlorine 
preparation) widely used in i war. 
We've been eating fish caught b;^ the Wagenia fishermen at this 
"motel,” and it’s good but I do not yet know how the different (larger) 
species they catch taste. We also see (have) fish frcsn Lake Kivu on 
the shores of which Bukavu is situated, Bukavu or Costermansville 
according to your map. We are due in Bukavu on May 13. Our address 
there will be c/o Dr. Louis van den Berghe, Director, IRSAC, Lwiro 
(Katana) D. S. Bukavu, Belgian Congo, (IfiSAG stands for Institut pour 
Recherche Scientifique en Afrique (#ntrale). Quite a mouthful 
or handful if you are writing. We return from Yangambi on the 25th 
and for the next few days pursue a slightly different itinerary than 
the one you last received from me I believe, Kia Mia on the 26th, Paulis 
on the 28th, Niangar-a on the 29th arid 30th we shall be in Gangala Na 
Bodio and the Garamba Nat'l. Park, Gangala Na Bodio is the elephant 
Domestication Center , the Park is one to which tourists are not generally 
admitted. We make Kioka on the first of May, our longest single haul, 
300 miles. Prom there an the itinerary is as you have it, except at 
the tail-end (Congo itinerai-y we skip from the Gabiro Park stop to 
Entebbe (Uganda) in one day (250 miles) to gain a day for packing our 
outfit for shipping out by rail to Morabassa, and thence home by freighter 
