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33 But morning & afternoon collecting he had apparently looked it up. (Really bet yesterday when he first mentioned it and this a.m. when we again ran into him in the [[strikethrough]] [[?]] [[/strikethrough]] [[?hard]] ware store. Well anyway it was August Busch on search for pink boll weevils. When I mentioned I knew his son & daughter, he asked me to tell them that there was someone down here who remembered their father. I said let me have your name he said I send it to you. But I said we leave in the night, but why he demurred I do not know So happened last night (2 a.m.) Fenner woke me up to tell me he had a bad case of dysentery, had been running to closet for sometime & had fever of 102, and that I should know it before going on our 4 a.m. as planned. I had no Achromycin, if I had had I would have said we'll push on, but without Achromycin we'd have to wait till morning. So I woke Capt up to tell him to call off early morning trip. Asked him what he had in way of medicine. Some sulphur drugs, and a set of ampules of a of a [[underlined]] Bacillus lactophillus, [[/underlined]] French made, said to be good for all intestinal disturbances. Fenner did not want it, but asked for soda water. It's used aboard for high balls (scotch & soda) for which I do not care. Well, when Bob woke me, I've looked every conceivable place & could find none. When I asked the Captain, he went to the vegetable locker & found 2 botles. I told him to call off four a.m. start which just meant turning off his alarm clock, which he did. This is being written on 15th morning, and concerns yesterdays