A Liberian Journey

Creator

Richard Pearson Strong

Date

10/3/26

Coverage

Tappi Town, Hinterland, Liberia

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October 3rd.

The husking of rice went on all day yesterday to the shouting chorus, which at times was rather trying to listen to. Today, however, is Sunday and there is no work of this nature. The climate here is not at all trying; the nights and mornings are cool and if one can keep out of the sun from ten until four-thirty or five it is not uncomfortable. From ten-thirty on, however, everything living seeks the shade. One sees it in the cattle and horses, which around the compound seek the shade of the houses and stand close to them for this shelter.

Harold and Loring have just returned with the elephant hunter. They reported that they saw elephant tracks but no elephants. They shot one monkey and two small birds. Our native hunter brought in another small antelope yesterday, a duiker. I examined its blood but found no parasites in it. In East Africa the duiker is sometimes a host of the trypanosome of sleeping sickness.

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Diary

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