Beyond Ponthiervllle lies Costeraansville, wh®re «e wet go ia any 
event, both to see soisethlng of toe national parks and take the road to 
Cairo. ?b© trip tram Stanleyvill© to Gostemansville by anto without 
iBuch more than an overnight atop takes two d^a. 
At this KOK^nt I caiaaot give you the cost of the trip tram Matadi 
to Stanleyville, The auto trip fr<a® Stanleyville to Costemansville is 
$110 per person, widen iocluf^s the night’s lodging and Mals. that 
basis I would figure that it will cost about ft65 per person per d^ of 
auto travel, with a party of five in one auto. If we have any gear a 
second auto would Ise needed, but of course it shoulc be cheaper than a 
carload of people. That I will learn later, too, 
Fros Costeraaasville, ttee permitting, one could run down to 
Eliaabetoville in the far southeast corner of the Congo, I do not know 
that it is necessary or deslrabl® to go tiast far unless there is stme 
particular reason for it. Fro® Costensansville it is reccEBsended that 
w get over into fuanda-Orundi, if only for a visit of a cay or two. 
It Is rather remarkable country about wfiich I will mt go into detail 
at this time, but it borders the lake region and to® natiojiSl park ^ea. 
At Costermansville , mlch goes bT the native name of JJukavu, is located 
the provincial medical laboratory, which we should visit for a variety 
of reasons. 
The primary reason for such a visit is that the other scienttific 
member of your party sriould be a George bliarton, wiio was a professor 
of soology at luke yniversity and is now head of the Depsrtaent of Zoology 
at the diversity of Maryland, He is ® well knows parasitologist, a 
specialist in his line, who is in cojTesponeence with the Selgian author- 
ities la the Congo, He is a friend of long standing, a mm of most 
congenial pers<jnality. It he can get leave from the University, as I 
anticipate, tfwre is one little hitch about his aecewpanying the trip 
to the ffiouth of the Congo, coming as it will be Just at the close of 
the school year. Tou wuld probably have to fly bis over so that he 
could meet us at Leopoldville and save the several weeks of time the 
stejwaer trip would take, but from ttsere out home he could mcompmjr tkm 
expedition 
In passing up through ti* lake region we should cut over to Mombasa 
to a little town Just beyond called Fpulu, where lives a Mrs. Anne Eisner 
Putnam, who apparently runs a cai^ iroM wnich expeditions into the back 
country take off. The Saron has promised me a strong letter to her, tco, 
Frc® there we would cut nortti to Juba, and go beyond, along ttie headwaters 
of the Kile, by auto to Khartoi®, Fr« there out one can fly to Cairo, 
go down the river by vessel, or else travel by auto. From Cairo 1 be- 
lieve you anticipate flying iicsse. 
Air fro® Hew York to Leopoldvilfe^Clrf ilharton) is 1720, Mr 
from Cairo to Hew York, first class, is $650,U0, 
