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wRECkING AND BUILDING
FINANCIAL.

MuNEh FOR I'D TRTST LOANS on ID G
property. g. Il IIKFNS I2at ~ y
Main JOJ1 =. NV
FIRST Trust REAL ESTATE NOTES e.
trlct Of Columbia: denomip,ti,,s S,"c rs ,
upward LOUIS p. SHOEMAKER. IIn7 Y
J ave. NV, established 1876. Main 11sG
FIRE, AUTOMOBILE. PLATE GLASS mn
glary insurance. LOUIS p SIIOFW.Erp
i4o' y J. ave NV. Main 1896. Inouire
for Mr.. Elliott
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NORTH CAPITOL ST. COR.
5000 SO. ft.; suitable for
apt. theator. store. etc. So.
MAHORNFY E. SULLIVAN.
1927 Eye. Tel. NJ. 1921.
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PERSONAL.

"oIth hiN6MEN-Ir is REGARDED As
hifhly probable that ''trousers'' sales will
" 70 force Tor some time to come; at least
as long rs hustlers will buy them hn, souo
are wise and find better value in new nantS.
right here. 81 to s.: slightly used clothing
JCSTH's OLD STAND, $40 ID.
5-o
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CeatraI NorthweA.

Z fN 1 NAis y. W NH-fhtf ENSloNAL IOlA-
tion; blocks from White HOUSE: 3-Story
brick house: II rocms & bath: rsrare. Pri~e.
$4,000: reasonable terms. LOFTS r. SHOE
MAKER. 1907 y. 7 ave. Main lies.
Sr. 1ith Q y. n. ave. vii -s-. n
amt: fll. 900: Al eond- Money REALTY
co.. - len st- ~. Oxford Bids. n. $50.
z ST. NV. BET. sTB AND oTH-Two
stories. orick. rns., bath. 20 settle
estate: 5000. THOMAS J. FISHER q Co.
INC. T3s 18th at NJ. Main ESQ.
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GARAGES.

GARAGE. Mr.. HOUSE OFFICE RrIDIvc
-Two->tnry brick; holds four cars: nric.
$50. WILDMAN . CO.. 9th and a .ts.
Franklin 6406. Am
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DOOR CHECKS
The Washington Door Check

Repairs for all door elosers; springs put
IN and rehlls- Call us up and let Us tell
you how to save money BY our contracts.
Main 69s2- 613 7th ST. NV.
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The Npaselilaton lleralo-

aton Nerdto-
LOTS FOR SALE.
City and Suburban-Continued.
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BRENTWOOD. MD, NEAR WILLIAMS &
Ivy sts.--Prire $500. Manorney and sulli-
van; 15ei, I've st. NV. Tel. NJ. 1921,
SIX BEAUTIFUL J.oTs in Rnndie Heights: /:
Jone rar fare. IL Minutes ride To center of
city: for qrick sale, 500 each: $40 down.
50 mo. Eastern Land Sales Co, $40 18th
u NV. PHONE NJ. 1853.
GEORGIA AVE. NV. AND FERN PLACE.
bcynnd Walter Reed Hospital: beautiful
lots; sizes 10 suit; restricted: - TO 20 cents
per foot. LOUIS =. SHOEMAKER. 1907 ".
Y. ave. NV. Main llC6.
cor MINI AVE & GAULT PL \. E.
fine business location; $3.50: terms. y. Y.
Rvon Co. Inc. 1923 st.
MANOR PARK. Y W. ! TO 20 lots: good
szc. clear: terms; each $50. y. T..
-Pv"u Co. Inc. i4es I,
American Univ. Park,
Chesapeake st. $500
It.. cor. alley. Price, $3.50.
MAHORNEY G. SULLI-
VAN, 1927 Eye st. NV.
Tel. Main 1921.
Near lexington Manor
me-, 24x100 to alley.
$3.50; terms. N. F.. RYON
CO., INC, 1923 + st.
HE. aorI & MASS. AVE. sE-3 tots; p.r.
gain: $40 each. Eastern Land Sa!es Co.,
si9 18Th St
NEAR I5th & II HE-Nearly - acrps; two
houses on rDopcrtv: price. 81 800 Na-
horrrv & SUlliTan. 1921 Eye st. Main 1921.
TAKoMA PIX. u. C.--CoRNEH Lor. sII2O.
VA. II. SAUNDERS & CO. 1879 x ST. wv,
VIII EUIID NUuI . or ROOM
BCNG ALoW IN RON-AIR HGTs
FHR 500 CASH: BALANCE
Thn r,rLow co.
$40 Itth street.
rITTTtHCTSF ST Wv Nh !4TII ST
car Uao ." TaEa~n-T.re lots. north rt
sortr "r-r'. - nd 81 coui- per foot. LOFTS
p sr0""AEEE 1901 y. !. ave NV.
Main ilCa.
nr ,NwnnD = n Mo r.st lots ~ this So.
t'rr. wiz ,n7 si1e- m ,-cr: 81 ON. !. n.
VII OMAN ".' 4 II So NV Fk Cyn3.
NP KENNEDY ST & BLAIR RD Ne
r0-rt front: 81. so: terms y Z. kyos
Go lar.. If23 st
SAIL hnp% CRITTCHLES ST.-45rits
g ofi NsHo-ey ard sullivan. 1921 Eye
~. Tel. u 7sel.
FA"TNEY -rT on rri'-a1I. ono sr r~o-s
sores. In Di.t-irt. Price reasonable. M.
7r">EY AZ Is, LLlNAS 1921 rye st NV.
NJ 7s2I
LI"C. FH VIEW. lot.. $40: $40 c-.h;
.f. I and rF =.
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sI6.J 500
NEW sEAlI nEI CuEn REsrnENcn

NEW SEMI-DETACHED RESIDENCE.
Located within half-square OF 18th ct
rooms. . baths. spacious porches. Every
modern conveni~nce Be sure 10 see this.
wM. II. SAUNDERS CO.. 1888 Of. nv.
NJ 1915
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TWENTY FOUR APARTMENTS: PRESENT
rental, Sl4.0Oo: expenses. $1,000: rents no
less than Sl1 ~ per room: splendid location.
GATEwOOD 4. BENNETT. SOD Continental
Trust Bldg. Main 6594
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CARPENTERS.
CHAIR CANEINe.

CHAIR CANEING. UPHoISTERISG,
springs reset: our sbsoiute work and low
nrces are sure to please you CLAY ARM
STRONG. 1913 10th st. NV. Fr 1888 81
UPHOLsTERING AND FURNITURE RE-
pairing Of all kinds. REUBEN s. BUR-
RELl-. 20 W St NV. ". 290iJ. 1144
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MAHORNEY & SULLIVAN,

C0RCORAN ST, BET 10TH & ITTH SITS.
-Six-fam. apart. house tcoioredD good in
vestment: gross rent. 500 per mo- easy
terms. WM. II. SAUNDERS & CO. 1888 X
st. NV.
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feet idealism. In a period Of bru-
tai literature, in a society which
seems only to take pleasure in ma
terial joys, Edmond Rostand con-
secrated the most splendid gifts
of Imagination to exalt pure love.
disinterestedness, forgetfulness OF
self, romance and chivalry.
MOCKS PURITY.
Yet Don Juan is the mockery OF
all this nobility and all this
purity. He is the defiance flung
at all these beautiful sentiments.
That explains the sort Of generous
rage with which Rostand turns on
the historical figure and charges
him with his lance. He has sworn
to ungild the idol, to pull the base
from beneath the statue. to snatch
from the vulgar corrupter his
mask OF hero--it is an execution.
To the play. At the instant that
the commander has loosened his
hold upon him, Don Juan has OBJ
tanned from hell a respite Of ten
years, the time required to COM
plete his list Of q thousand and
three loves. But now his hour had
come. It finds him In the swirl of
a fete at Venice.
The poet has made this one con-
cession to his victim, given him for
his tragedy this enchanting back
ground. He perceives a secret
harmony between the air Of this
city and the destiny Of this man.
City OF dreams where folly runs
through the streets under the
mask and the domino, city of re-
Observation-Disclosures of the sky.
reflections in the lagoons and re-
Elections Of ancient glory. Venice,
city Of the fragile and the illusory,
was made for this, seeker Of brief
adventures in which evanescent
pleasures assume the mask OF love.
This Venetian setting would be
Il that romanticism could claim
IN the last work OF Rostand IL.
among others, a certain VoltaIre
had not also used II to make a
carnival Of kings. To tell the
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"l LAST NIGHT OF DON JUAN"

truth. the new Don Juan Is the
reply to the Don Juan Of the ro-
manticists. Lord Byron and Mus
set made of the libertine whom
they gave to legend and the stage
a mystic parsonage, a sombre hero.
a proud seeker Of the ideal. Ros-
tand resolved to put an end to this
nonsense, to dissipate these fogs
with the clear light Of his own
genius.
OLD CRY OF VENICE.
The Snowman Of the martonettes
passes. Burattini! It Is one Of tho
old cries of Venice. Edmond Ros-
tand always had a passion for
marionettes. They were one Of
the best loved diversions Of his
childhood. At Marseilles, oppo-
site the house in which his
parents lived, there was a toy
merchant who displayed in his
shop front irresistible little
wooden dolls. The schoolboy spent
all his pocket money there.
At home he shut himself up with
his latest purchase and by turns
becoming wardrobe man, actor and
exhibitor fitted in with a costume
and a role. Burattini!
It is clear how much thought
there is in THE Last Night Of
Don Juan" and how much its in
spiration is original and noble
and manly. Shall I say that I
find it's severity a little too inclu-
sive and uniform7 The condem-
nation is unshaded-is It unap-
pealing?
should be tempted to say
something for at least some Of
the women whom the corruptor
led astray. How can one believe
that among them all there were
not many who truly loved? That
Is the dangerous thing about Don
Juan; II is the thing for which
he is TO be feared; very excellent
women have permitted him to
mistreat them.
do not doubt that the Don
Juan OF Rostand will take rank,
and in a high place. with the
hugo literature of the subject
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steamer had just rad a friend
pulled under by the crJcs while
taking a rash swim. 1t seems to
me the most horrible of deaths.
There are several theories abou,
the way the crocodile consumes his
victim. Some hunters say that
he crunches down his prey at once.
others that he holds it under until
It is drowned and then often hides
it away on the bank until it is what
might be called ripper and more
favored to his taste.
Major Hamilton. for many years
game warden in British East, is a
partisan of the filed.fo- reference
theory. He vouches for the story
Of a young man who vas pulled
down and held under until the
crocodile judged that he was
drowned. The young mGn came to
upon a shelf in the river bank
worn by the waters when high. but
now just above the water. He was
uninjured and was able to break
his way up through the sod over.
head and make his escape
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CANfPED FIVE DAYS
WAITING FOR 200 PORTERS.

We had come now as far as rail
and boat could take US. We had
hopes of a boat on Lake Kivu. for
a government launch made the
round of the lake once or twice a
month, and to avoid waiting for II
Monsieur Ryckman, the admins
traitor at Usumbura. authorized US
to use It whenever we arrived II
we would pay for the gasoline-but
the gasoline was lacking. However.
1t was ordered and was somewhere
on the road. This lent considerable
uncertainty to a condition of safari
life. We had left our last telephone
and that was broken. There was
nothing quicker now than the black
far behind at Bukama on the Congo
feet OF a runner.
The administrator sent out TO
the chiefs for porters for us. and
we felt we were on safari at last.
when early one morning. October
II, we saw the long line of blacks
in goatskins and beads descending
upon us. They came in four lots.
from different villages, with a head
man CARED the same one for the
The porter's status seems to be
that OF a voluble chattel. ! don't
believe any one ever volunteers for
the position. In the Congo porters
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ternal strife which more rnd
moro resulted in surbordinating
the man Of the theater to the
poet
Alexander Dumas, the younger,
in the fine preface to THE Stran-
ger" spoke Of the struggle Of the
dramatist, who, weary OF being a
mere purveyor Of amusement,
wished by means Of the stage to
express ideas that were dear to
him. Arrived at a turning point
in his career, he asked himself
the limits of his craft, and feared
that he might have overstepped
them.
Little by little these truths he
was so eager to spread, that were
taught him by experience and re-
Election, invaded his plays at tho
risk Of slowing down their move
ment and dimming the colors OF
Life. The balance between dra-
matte action and philosophic
thought was lost, to the profit Of
the latter.
UNGILDS THE IDOL.
This was already the case with
"Chantecler," that ardent confes-
sion by the artist Of his dreams,
his torments, his ambitions and
his despairs. It is more than ever
the case with The Last Night
OF Don Juan" this time exposing
to US the views Of the moralist.
Rostand is the first Of all the
poets to despoil Don Juan Of his
halo, which the famous seducer
OF Seville owes to so many poets
of all countries. For even those
who hated him have not denied
him his prestige. Meliere, who de-
tested in him "the evil man Of
high rank" left him his adorn.
ments Of elegance and courage.
But-from Les Romanesques"
to "Chantecler" ana from ia
Princesse Lointaine" to "Cyrano"
ono spirit has animated this writ
er's work truly unique in our
times. the spirit Of the most por-
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HARD WORK GETTING
HELP FROM THE NATIVES.

The men spent the next day cut.
ting out some skin and the ivory.
It was a single tusker. weighing
about IS pounds. The other tusk
had been broken off from an old
bullet wound, and there were sores
from wounds on his body. The
men had hard time getting work
from the natives. who were only
interested in getting meat. and
whenever the white men were OBJ
liviously occupied the men would
sneak up and hack off choice NOR
sells. to be conveyed by the grape
vine route to the outskirts.
There was one leprous-looking
old chief who had a huge wash
basin and a total disinclination to
work, and one Of the brightest mo-
ments Of the day was a sudden
vision OF that chief sailing through
the air, followed by his basin, as
my husband turned and caught
him making a felonious assault
upon the elephant.
No work, no meat, was the order
OF the day, until the elephant was
turned over to the chiefs and head
men for distribution. There was
feasting and dancing all that night.
and the dark was III with little
fires over which the meat hung
drying while in the smoky gleam
the dark shoulders jostled and bare
feet stamped in rhythmic frenzy.
The next day we went on, aban-
donlng the wounded elephant,
which we would not have done un-
der usual conditions, but until the
gotillas were secured we could not
afford to waste time on anything
else.
Another chapter of Mrs. Brad.
iey's adventures in the African
wilds will appear In next Sundays
Washington Times.
(CspyriEht. 1922, by Mary HsstisGs
BradlsyO
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Fifty years it I0as agone,
When Stanley, uith his jour7salis-
tic din,
Marched By the longest way, in
competently in,
To find man in natures
toUeliest spot,
The World forgetting-not, alas,
forgot"
The meeting tree is at Viii. an
old Arab settlement of about 25 900.
formerly a great trading center for
slaves and ivory.
At Usumbura, the north end Of
the lake. we camped five days
waiting for the 200 porters for our
march north through ths noun
tains to Lake KiYu.
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START FINALLY MADE
ACCOMPANIED By MUSIC.

There swas a strong interest
taken by those porters in the loads
they got that morning. for each
man carried the same one for the
rest of the trip. With an unerring
instinct for light boxes they sur
rounded the fly tent where we
were breakfasting in the gray
dawn, and the meal was made hec-
tic by having TO whirl about and
Illustrate the long, black, snake
like arms reaching under the can.
vas to purloin some unready box.
We finally got under way about
7:30 that first morning, with a tri-
umphant blaring Of the curved
horns the leaders loved to blow.
The music resembles a Scotch bag
pipe crossed with mule. vocal.
and a really musical safari en-
route sounds like a calliope gone
mad.
We divided the party. Mr.. AXE.
ley bringing up the end with his
motion picture carriers to see that
no porter abandoned his load, and
the Bradley family starting ahead.
We had bought bicycles at Elisa
bethville. for no mules were to be
had. owing to the difficulty Of
bringing animals in through the
fly belt. and though we knew moth
ing of the route except that It
mounted over 1000 feet in the
eight days, every bit that we could
ride would be a help. When i'm
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Capetown to the Congo The jagged line shows the
landing st the edes es Of Se g

are paid half a franc a day, which
was 31 cents for us, and 10 cen
times a day for posho, or food
money. The days march is about
four hours. though often more,
and have known it to be nine,
and each man carries about forty
to sixty pounds on his head. Our
chop boxes were all made up in
weights for carrying. and we tried
to have all the loads OF equal
weight. but of course there were
discrepancies.
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WOMAN KILLS ELEPHANT
AFTER EXCITING HUNT.

1t was the third day out that
Martha Miller killed her elephant.
We were in camp on a high bluff
when the elephants were seen
feeding in a plain about two miles
away. 1t was 4:30, and the light
would be gone only too soon, so
we set off with guides, guns, and
cameras, at a grilling pace.
We reached a hill above the
plains and crept cautiously for
ward through the bush till, on the
brow. we had a splendid view.
There were six of them about 200
yards below us, five full.grown
and one smaller. feeding utterly
unaware OF us. their trunks swing.
ing in the bundles of grass. their
tusks cleaning against the dark
skins. There Is something pre-
historic looking about a wild sle-
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up on top.
We had made no preparations
for food, having been told at Eliza
bethville that we would find a
steamer which would provide that.
and at the last moment, the kindly
official in charge Of the freight
depot came rushing down the bank
with hot and fairly kicking leg
OF a goat which he had that in
slant dispatched for US.
However, there was another pas
senger, another river captain, who
contributed antelope, and we had
leftovers from train fare, so the
goat was a vain oblation. although
appreciated by our boys.
STILL A LONG WAY
FROM THE GORILLAS.
All that day we glided between
groves Of borassus palms, the love
Hest trees in Africa, and past banks
overgrown with forest, always with
purple peaked mountains against
the sky.
There were plains of antelopes
and there were three elephants
TRANQUILITY feeding. there were
crocodiles slipping silently from
sandbars at our approach, and
there was a huge hippo swimming
open rnouthed toward us.
We were a long way yet from
gorillas, but we began to feel that
we were on the trail, really in
Africa, headed up to the heart of it.
That night we made connections
with a freight steamer, whose cap
tain was utterly amazed Mt this In.
vasion of Americans. But he gave
Us the freedom of the ship and we
tucked ourselves away, the girls in
the cabin of an absent mechan-
ician, Mr.. Akeley, in a room on the
accompanying barge. and my hus-
band and I set up our cots on deck.
BY day we sat forward in the
barge in our steamer chairs, glid-
ing along as luxuriously as Cleo
patra in a dahabiyeh and through
more marvellous scenery than even
the Nile can offer.
Our three boys cooked for US
over an open fire on the steel
deck. As all the native passengers
camped about the back of the
barge had their own little cooking
fires. too, we presented the appear
ance Of a floating picnic grounds.
We had opened one of our Lon
don chop boxes. containing an 40.
sortment Of things in tins-tea and
coffee, milk, butter, crackers, jam,
cheese, prunes, deviled ham,
tongue and so forth--and at our
stops at native villages along tho
banks we bought eggs and bananas
and chickens-eggs 1T cents a
dozen, bananas at az cents the
bunch, and chickens a, Z cents
apiece.
The chickens were scandalously
high. We rarely paid more than
~ cents for a chicken after that.
CROCODILES SWARMED
ABOUT THE STEAMER.
We had to be careful OF Alice on
these slippery steel unrailed decks,
but we never let her stir alone, and
found a safe play corner where
she spent her days with Miss Hail
at her favorite coloring md draw.
ing.
The river was full OF crocodiles.
Several times she saw them drift
ing past, like submerged logs, ard
twice, looking over the side,
caught a crocodile's google eyes
looking up at me in sinister eA-
pectancy.
The captain Of our FIRST uttle
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FOUND TREE WHERE STANLEY
MET WITH LIVINGSTONE.

We were five days to the north
end Of the lake, tying up for two
of them at Kigoma. on the east
shore, in what used to be German
East. After the war 1t was Bel
gian and then reapportioned to the
British.
Four miles from Kigoma il the
historic tree beneath which Stan
ley met Livingstone. My great
grandfather used to talk about that
meeting, and had always pictured
1t in some dark and damp African
forest, MOSQUITOES humming and
danger threatening. wished my
grandfather could have seen that
place of sunshine and dancing
waves! 1t made me appreciate
Cecil Johns dry lines. named from
Stanley's exquisitely conventional
greeting, "Dr. Livingstone, I be-
lieve?"
"Beneath this tree stood Living
stone,
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roe Ill over AIriCa on Wneel, LOT
the native paths wind from village
to village, padded smooth by gen
erations Of bare feet. In the ad.
ministered territories the chiefs are
required to have a certain amount
of work done on the paths. cutting
the side grass and SO forth. so
the ways are improved.
ALICE HAD SPECIAL CHAIR
BUT SHE LIKED TO WALK.
For Alice Mr.. Akeley had de-
signed and practically made a spe-
cial seat, low in front of the wheel.
and that bicycle was ridden by our
boy Mablanga, who was strong and
careful and utterly devoted. Alice
loved to ride like that.
A little later when the rains
made even the good paths impass-
able for wheels we had a basket for
Alice strung on poles carried by
two natives. She liked to walk.
however, much better than to ride,
and she learned to say, PUT me
down" in every variety Of native
language.
Our first days march was a long
one, twenty-three kilos. and the
road was good, 50 we bicyclists
reached the rest house. Koto-Koto.
at noon and sought shelter from
the sun under the matched roof,
where It was always cool, and pro-
ceeded to wait for the safari. which
came in two hours after.
We had some lunch in a bag and
water bottles and we bought ba-
nanas from the chief. who promptly
presented himself with the inevi-
table present Of a chicken.
These presents were a trial from
the moment they appeared. heads
hanging, legs tied, TO the time OF
their assassination and ultimate
appearance upon the table. To
become a present a rooster must
have lived long past all reasonable
expectation Of a Methusalah and
apparently subsisted all those years
upon what sustenance he could
pick up within the radius of two
inch tether. Nothing stringier or
more sinewy exists.
We used Ito accumulate those
chickens at a fearful rate, and as
the way they were carried. tied and
dangling. was intolerable to me. my
one aim in life was to eat them as
promptly as possible and start
days march without these sorry
companions. I don't believe I ever
succeeded. II our own chickens
were gone the boys mysteriously
acquired chickens Of their own.
RUNNER SENT AHEAD
TO PREPARE FOR FOOD.
From the chief we bought eggs
and firewood, and found out about
water. A runner was sent ahead
along the line OF march to notify
the chiefs to make ready to feed
the young army OF advancing por-
ters. and as soon as we arrived at
Koto-Koto the women began bring
ing in the bundles.
That night and several others we
slept in the grass rest houses built
for travelling Belgian officials. for
these looked fresh and there
seemed no danger from the dread
ed kimpootoo or spirillum tick. We
always had our nets over us In
those houses. although we never
saw a mosquito. The freedom
from flies and mosquitoes was one
Of the joys Of this part Of Africa.