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May 30 -

A letter was waiting for us yesterday when we got in, asking Bill to call on Superintendent Davis as soon as possible.  This we did, and found him to be an affable Kansas City negro, with Phillipine service in the background.  He told us that there had been great excitement over our association with the Germans on the Bendaja; that the President had asked Davis what was up.  Davis said he investigated thoroughly and had sent another and correct report to the President, and he felt sure that everything was straightened out now.  Then he handed us a letter from Wharton, our Charge d'Affaires in Monrovia, in which we were requested to return to Monrovia at once because of certain matters which had been brought to his attention officially by the Liberian Government.  We were upset over this, as it sounded as though Monrovia was taking these wild stories seriously.

From the various Cape Mount residents we learned that we had actually been accused of heading a German expeditionary force into the hinterland and towards the English border; that we were armed with eight high-powered rifles; that Bill, suspiciously enough, spoke German!  Evidently the requested spies had been on the job, for Davis knew all about our trip, even to the fact that we had been digging something or other out of bub-a-bug nests.

We called on Miss McKenzie in the course of the day, and had palm butter chop with the Germans at Paul's in the evening.

May 31 -

Bill gave a talk on ants to the school children this morning.  At the end he asked if there were any questions, and there were surprising number, most of them very intelligent questions, showing that the boys and girls were interested in insects and observed them accurately.  The school is a fine institution, with dormitories, class rooms, a big dining hall, a chapel, assembly room, and good library.

We had lunch with Miss McKenzie, and just after lunch noticed that our fishing boat had come in, although we had not expected it until tomorrow.

We spent most of the afternoon waiting for news of when we should sail.  Miss Jolly came by looking for the Bishop; she understood he had capsized coming ashore, but nobody knew which way he had gone after he landed on the beach.  It was five o'clock before Captain Rosen and Dr. Kahl came over and began to make plans for tomorrow.  We have to leave Cape Mount in time to make the tide at Monrovia, otherwise it will be impossible to cross the bar there.  After endless discussion it was decided to leave in the morning, and I set to in frantic haste to get packed.  I had to go down the hill to Paul's to ask for two surf boats, and up to Miss McKenzie to ask for her school boys as carriers.  Then we went down to the Huygen's for dinner, and that meant climbing up the mountain again to get home.