Filed! Belgian Congo 
23 Februaiy 1955 
Dr. James Chapin 
Boite l^stal 
217 Bukavu 
Belgian Co 3:^ 
Dear Dr. Chapins 
IMs long disbarice arrasiging of collecting trips is qaifce soc^thing. I 
liked the old wa^ heat, Xou Just went equipped and took yo’or cliances, and 
tod^, in the Congo at least, you have to reserve yoijr bed before you start. 
So at least, we are advised on all sides. I’ve tried to do this but, Ceasar’s 
ghost, if one wants to stay longex than plarined in some place it would seem 
it can't be done. I shall try to conform because mw that I'm wairaed up to it 
I want this Congo ejjpcrience. 
¥e'v© worked out % 'SKJre reasonable itinerary. Flying from Leopoldville to 
Stanleyville gives us more tiitie for tlie Stanleyville-Costcrmansville stretch and 
will, I believe give us a few deWs in the Kapra Pari< on the to Entebbe idiere 
we take a plane for Juba and the laie steamer. TfScing to the iiir does complicate 
matters for we shall have to get rid of heavier parapliemalia and spectofflis each 
time we do| arid leave the flipping home to 05 ur ©aod friends along the line, 
Leopoldville, ajid at Uvira I grzess. 
Our party has shr’jnken from 5 to tiiree, but we shall have with us a fourth 
mw. Dr. Sekton's son to assist him with the caiteras and picture ta^cint;. The 
Bredins who are sponsoring the "expedition” if it may be called that, can't 
start with us, bub hope ruw to Join forces sojaewiterc along the linej; at least 
foi" the Nile trip. The revised (coiK^ensed) itinorar'/ should bring os to Bukavu 
about 13 for perhaps 5 nights. But of tuis I shall advise you c^jain when we 
get a few yet unsettled details ironed out. 
¥e have tried to get Thorriton as a guide frm itanl^/ville over, but I'm 
afraid he'll be sending us a substitute. One of the days in Gostermalisville 
(Bukavu) we witii to drive out to your place and "chew the fat" as they s%'. 
Now tliat we have young Sexton along to help on ilie ptoto end we are still lacking 
a "skinjier'* but here we shall either have to do more for ourselves or take fewer 
fflaall manmials, or try to pry some one lose frtjm one or arKjther research station 
for a limited period. Still we won't have too jsuch for the animal parasites. 
I should have .mentioned ^oirer that Br. Wharton rsaw finds it impassible to break 
aw^ from Ills university duties, and that Dr. Edward Baker of the U. S. Dept, of 
Agriculture, Joint author with Wharton of that text on Acarology, is takir^ his 
place. 
With regard to this latest itinerary, we shall not be visiting half the 
places I wish to collect or photograpJi in, but one can't have everything. 
Indeed, I think we should have gone mre in the directions that other travel- 
lers generally do not go. There are two places I'd yet like to work in but 
