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April 18* At three p,xn« more or less the Wagenia fishery was visited* 
The people are supposed to be most active about this time. Indeed thejr 
were, children everywhere the rate of human profiuctivity must be immense 
and but for a considerable number of umbilical hernias and the usual 
native distented stomachs (? enlarge spleens) the kids were or 
seemed in most healthy condition^ well fed, and happy. The women for 
most part were preparing the evening meal, fish were boiling away in 
pots, cooking plaintains, sitting nearby, great bowls full, while the 
housekeepers were pounding manihot (cassava root) in wooden mortars with 
wooden postles giving them a twist as the downward blow was driven* 
Often two women participated in the pounding j in one case one had a 
half asleep (or half sick) infant lying in her lapj the pounding was 
being done from the sitting position; and the baby seemed not to mind* 
In fact they seem to mind nothing, have in these couple of weeks in the 
Congo seen literally thousands of black babies and children and have seen 
two crying, one no miore than whimpering having stumbled and fallen 
on a rock at the Wagenia fishery, and the other playing boat in a box 
ca^obby often did^ cried when I took an interest in him and ran and hid 
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behind his mother crying lustily, she had to pick him up in arms to 
comfort him. (This so often happens to me with kids) About 50% were 
in their birthday clothes but all who had or could afford a pc. of garment 
had one on, seme in shirts, otherpshorts , or wrap arounds but none 
completely decked top or bottom, some long wrap arounds from ankle to 
waist with big roll in front at waist to hold it in place others with 
short loin clothes or little tom shirts that reached no where and covered 
nothing. It was fantastic. The women all were well ‘’garbed’* in their 
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wrappers , which in many many cases held little babies tightly to their 
backs. 
