there may be emergencies when a hunter like Thornton might well be needi . 
There are local gane wardens and if their organization is anything like 
the United States National Park Service, we would be well looked after. 
Perhaps Thornton only operates in the eastern Congo out of Bukavu, 
in which case, we would just travel and collect with our chauffer guides 
till we reached Stanleyville according to present plans. There we could 
take on Thornton for the Stanleyville, Bukavu, Juba triangle. At this 
time and from this end it seems best to buy an auto tour of the nature 
of the one on the enclosed outline, so that we shall have transportation 
and hotel accomodations throughout. Traps, chiefly live traps, would be 
set out at overnight stops, to be picked up in the early morning, bats 
hunted at dusk, and invertebrates and plant mites and their host plants 
collected in the morning hours, or at lunch periods. Yes, it will be, 
for the collectors at least, a rather strenuous trip, as the Bredins would 
rather go by car than plane. However, we shall at the end fly home from 
Cairo. 
Besides Ihornton or a man like him we should have an intelligent 
assistant to help the photographer with his equipment. Can you recommend 
one whom we could pick up in Matadi where the Bredins and I expect to land 
from a Belgian African Line freighter about mid April, or Leopoldville 
where Sexton and ¥narton will meet us. Because of there commitments they 
have to save the time gained by flying over. As important is another 
assistant who is experienced in slflnning small mammals. Do you know of 
some one who can make up satisfactory skins and otherwise help with 
collecting whom we could gather into the party from mid April to the end 
or near the end of May? We would take care of remuneration and expenses 
of these assistants? also the hunter-guide for ^atever period it would 
be advisable to have him along, for the whole trip if deemed best. It 
would be helpful to know what we should pay them. 
I have asked Thornton for recommendations too, and I have told him 
that I am writing to you about the matter, as well as to the folks at 
the Kivu or Bukavu medical laboratory. This latter inquiry is being 
handled by Dr. I'tiarton who has been in correspondence with Dr. Vercammen- 
Grandjean there concerning their mite and tick problems (scrub-typhus?). 
It may be that the lab could release to us the desired assistants from 
their own staff. 
Thornton is being sent a copy of the itinerary enclosed. We are 
asking him for advice or bids for the entire trip or parts of it, and 
if part only, for the names of parties who might handle other sections, 
tourist agencies or otherwise. 
To save time I had thought of flying first to Costermansville 
(Bukavu) or Stanleyville and taking autos from there out, but frankly, 
I believe we have a lot to gain by the rather long, cross country trip 
from Leopoldville. Vfe could make quite a sampling of the animals we 
want to collect, over terrain we would otherwise not encounter. I shall 
