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We went down to the [[strikethrough]] rice shed [[/strikethrough]] warehouse and found our animals were safely loaded on a big truck, so we headed out to the plantation, reaching Vi's in time for one of his country chop Sunday lunches. There were ten at lunch, and although nobody remembered the wording exactly, it seems that a radio was received about our first shipment detailing an appalling number of losses - the pigmy hippo, the baby leopards, and the giant pangolin. The report is that both Warren Buck and Philip Carroll were on board - the latter with 500 monkeys and 50 chimps - so it is possible that Roy had a bad time - he certainly had hard luck. We also were told that Norris got another hippo, but it died on the way in from Kakata. 

Little Bernice went to Cape Palmas with George, and they have no idea now when they will be able to get back, as no one knows what the Dutch ships will do. Big Bernice has been in the hospital twice, and is still feeling pretty miserable. 

June 3 - 
Spent the morning unpacking, writing letters and typing notes. The unpacking was discouraging - everything that we left here is covered with mildew - dresses, shoes and leather bags are simply green with the stuff. The rainy season seems to have begun in earnest, and the climate is worse than ever - even though it is cooler. 
A fine hippo came in yesterday, bigger and better than the one we had before. Also a nice young ratel. 

June 5 - 
In our rattletrap old Ford, we went into Monrovia this afternoon and did a lot of errands, paying up bills, and calling on the American Charge d'Affaires. We had prepared for his files a careful record of our Cape Mount trip. In the evening we went to the Mamba Point House, the Number One establishment of the Firestone Company, occupied by George and Nina Blowers. It is a beautiful place, well outside of town, and overlooking the sea. We had dinner with them and spent the night.
 
June 6 - 
The Bishop send his launch, in charge of Captain Seddon, down to the Government wharf this morning, and in about an hour we were at Bromley, on the St. Paul River. This is another of the Episcopal Missions here; was originally a school for Liberian girls, under government supervision until the Mission took it over. It is still a girls' school, and the majority of the pupils (there are about eighty all together) are Liberians, as contrasted with bush girls. 

The Bishop and his wife have an attractive small house and a guest house. These are built of mud, with plenty of matting in the midst of the mud to hold it together, and then covered with a thin layer of cement. Both houses are principally verandah, with bedroom and bath opening off. Our little guest house contained also a small oratory. These are fine tropical houses, suiting the environment, cool with many arched windows and doors, and should last a long time. The floors are cement, and curtains, bedspreads and cushions are of country cloth.