A Liberian Journey

Creator

Date

Coverage

Transcription

                  Sat Aug 14^th – 12 men came in – all and as we had no promise of getting more we shipped them off to Kakatown with food boxes & odd supplies rather than have them idle. After they had gone & we had got settled again to microscopic & entomological pursuits, I took my gun & went out for a collecting walk – in a’ shower which came up for my benefit. I shot one bird and another but I find that the 20 guage has a limited range so it has no choke and beyond that there is a large element of luck. When I got back I started to skin my specimens but I found after skinning him partially that he was so shot up as to be useless. So I heaved him out & had lunch. After lunch I sent Dunbar out with the shotgun - & he brought me in a Dark blue fly catcher over which I worked during the early afternoon. Theiler came in at 200 from The Du with his porters behind him so after getting my fly catcher wrapped up I talked to him and gazed out upon the perpetual showers for the rest of the afternoon.

                  By the way – we bought a goat alive for 10/ which we will take along with us if we can catch him.

Type

Identifier

Citation