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As before, the country devil was at large, and when the story reached us it seemed that the devil was sitting by the waterside and we had a time getting our boys to go for water. After dinner the devil's representative, a play devil or dancing devil, came in, and whirled about the small open space in front of our hut. He was dressed in layer after layer of raffia, and looked as much like a moving haystack as anything. On his head was a black, carved wooden mask with a tall spike on it. After dancing about for a few minutes he suddenly grew tall before our eyes; we thought at first that he was on stilts, but decided that he had a way of shooting up this mask from inside his raffia disguise. He was accompanied by a ragged escort carrying a torn white pennant; drums beat, and chanting rose, during all the evening, long after we had grown tired of watching and had gone to bed. 

April 4 - 
We were off at 8.30, and from previous recollection of the trail expected to get to the end of the road beyond Kakata about two o'clock. To our great surprise we were there at 10.30 - so much difference in time did a properly organized caravan, with proper hammock boys, make. On the way out our hammock frames were missing, we were trying to walk in noonday sun to which we were at that time unaccustomed, and we could hardly believe that we had done in two hours what had taken us all afternoon before. 

Of course the trucks were not here yet. We sat by the roadside, ate lunch, and then decided to walk on until we met them. About 1.30 William, with the Seybolds' sedan, hove in sight, with one truck and then another close behind him. We got in the car, and were all as much surprised at the speed of an automobile, after hammock travel, as any savage would have been. Thirty miles an hour seemed absolutely reckless driving.

In Kakata we stopped in a little shop, and enjoyed the luxury of cold beer. We sat on salt bags, set our beer mugs on a sewing machine, and thought that civilization had its comforts after all.

It was good to turn our badly caged, hungry and thirsty animal over to Norris and Jennier in the rice shed. We had time for a brief glance at their collection, which was very good - many snakes, two or three new deer, a giant pangolin, six or seven feet long and weighing over fifty pounds, and an assortment of small mammals.

April 5 - 
Shampooing, manicuring, sorting laundry, unpacking - these took most of the day. At four o'clock I went over to the hospital to have Dr. Campbell remove a chigger from my big toe. It had made itself a nice little nest in the cuticle, and although the removal was not painful, the thorough disinfecting he did afterward was far from pleasant. The toe throbbed afterwards the way one's jaw aches when a tooth has been pulled.

April 6 -
Mr. Vipond organized a big drive for game on one of the isolated forest areas on the plantation. Twelve hundred boys, and