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Sunday, December 27, 1908
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We were closed to the outside world today, but downstairs ye Bwana Kuba sweltered over the Agency books and made preparations for the morrow, in general. Ye Gods, but we have been hiking it some since we struck this joint.

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Monday, December 28, 1908
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At it agin. Got those 200 bales out of the Custom House and into our godowns today. It was a hot two hours and a half job, too, I tell you. Then we had our ivory to look after and a few goatskins that Abdulla brought in, and altogether it was sumpin' slick.
   
One of the tusks in these is a Congo weighing 111 3/4 lbs. That's the biggest one I've seen, but they run much larger down here sometimes. We got two tusks out of Zanzibar about eight years ago that are "world beaters" still. One weighed 215 lbs., -the other 220. They were two valuable bits of dentistry, me boy.