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Superintendent's Office
Robertsport
Grand Cape Mount County
May 17, 1940
Paramount Chief
Boima Quae
Kpopa Section
Dear Chief: 
I received your verbal query about the foreigners operating in your section. I wish to inform you that I only heard of their arrival by rumor. I am addressing a letter to Dr. Mann and his party to remain at Bendaja pending their sending down to me their papers before they proceed further. If they have gone beyond Bendaja you will invite them back to Bendaja.
In the case of Mr. Paul, West agent, the German doctor and the other doctor, you will advise them not to go near the British boundary. You will take note secretly of the number of guns they have and laborers as well as their general activities and report to me immediately. Any information that you may have not contained in this letter you will please forward them. You will treat this letter in [[underlined]] strict confidence [[/underlined]].
I think it advisable that you place an intelligent messenger with them to observe their activities. 
With sentiments of my regard, I am 
Faithfully yours,
T. Elwood Davis
Supt. Gr. Capt Mount Co. 
Inasmuch as the letter was strictly confidential we were amused to have the chief bring it to us to read to him, although when I first glanced at it I asked him if he know what was in it and he said he did. We had certainly done our best to present our papers in person while we were in Cape Mount. We had heard first that Davis was in Mombo, and as we were going through Mombo we expected to meet him there. Then we heard he was in Sugari, but he was not there the day we were. We sent our papers down to him by messenger today. 
May 21 - 
Bill and I spent the morning fishing one small stream near town and got a number of fishes, although they seem very similar to those we have collected elsewhere. I photographed several groups of natives who passed us on the path while we were there, notably one group of men carrying the complete outfit for making cane juice - tank, coil, and enormous wooden mallets to crush the sugar cane.