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April 17 - 

Bill and I went over to the rice shed to see what Roy had acquired while we were away. There are some new antelope - one harnessed and a couple of duikers -another chimp, giving us four altogether, a fine monkey-eating eagle, [[underlined]] and [[/underlined]] a pygmy hippo which was sent to us by Commissioner Clark who had been so active in our behalf in Belleyella. It is a baby, but old enough to be eating cassada leaves and rice as well as drinking a quart or so of milk a day. Roy had built it a pen with a good-sized pool, and we were pleased with our new acquisitions. Every cage is now up on planks that rest on sawhorses, and the legs are immersed in five-gallon kerosene tins full of crude oil, to keep drivers away.

April 18 - 

Bill left early in the morning to watch another drive on the same patch of jungle that was driven once before.  He was gone all morning and reported that they had captured one live duiker and one dead antelope (the latter killed by the natives before the white men could get to it).

George and Bernice are both sick, and Dr. Campbell came over and insisted on treating everybody, turning the house into a regular hospital. He took blood smears from all of us, removed a chigger from my toe and gave me a [[strikethrough]] cold [[/strikethrough]] shot of something that is supposed to clear up my persistent cough.


April 19 - 

Up early, and Bernie and I took a five mile walk before breakfast. We get plenty of exercise when we are in the bush but I miss it when we are on the plantation. 

Life on the plantation is interesting, and we are constantly being amazed at the variety of details that have to be taken care of by the manager of the plantation.  George at the moment is working hard at acquiring new land for rubber, and the process of buying it from the native Chiefs is not like any other realestate operations in the world.  A recent deed transferring the [[strikethrough]] town [[/strikethrough]][[handwritten insert]] district [[/handwritten insert]] of Bazon, with a population of 150 people, and covering 500 acres, listed the following as the purchase price:

Survey fees £44
Commission, 8 towns 8
Dash 1
One bottle whiskey
One tin of cane juice
One 12-gauge gun
100 shells
One cane juice mill with 40-gallon tank

For this was received:

One village
Seven half towns
The devil bush

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