A Liberian Journey

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                  Sat Aug 21 – After breakfast I started to skin the Hornbill which seems to have had a Haemorrhage between his skin & body. As a result I had to continually wash and dry him to keep his feathers clean which slowed the process considerably – Even then I had to clean some of his feather

                  During this process they brought a young antelope – probably a bongo into the town – a very cunning and quite trusting young animal still in the suckling stage of which I took pictures. The chief made the proposition that we buy him for 3lbs and then give him the meat. It ended by our doing that for just 10/5 – at that robbery. So we led him out to his death and Bequaert spent the rest of the morning skinning him and preparing the hide.

                  In the afternoon I went shooting between showers but got nothing worth skinning altho I got some birds for Bequaert to examine for parasites. However as it rained most of the time the afternoon was generally spent in and around the house writing diaries dressing etc. By the way I have been bandaging two near-beer ulcers every morning as if I was a regular doctor.

                  After supper I developed 200 ft of movies and a roll of film which I partially fogged on account of the brightness of the night despite the rain. I didn’t do any more after that.

It rained hard all morning. I shot a shrike which Dr. Allen skinned when he came.

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