Leo. Saturday April 29 - 99

This is a day only for getting ready for Sunday. How-
ever, we had an invitation to go out on the Pool for a
steam boat ride, but we did not feel that we could go

to Kinshasa & return for the sake of a few hours pleasure
& leave everything undone so we did not go.

Sunday April 30 - 99

Mr. W. preached this a.m. I in the p.m. we had quite a
congregation of whites - 3.3. was well attended. Every-
thing moving on nicely.

-B. Monday May 1 - 1899
™~= This a.m. Major Putteny left. By the way, I forgot to
mention that he had dinner with us yesterday. Cleaning
up around is the general order of the day. I bought a
patch of green corn & we will have roasting ears for
some days. Gome ower & have some green corn with us
today.

Tuesday May 294 99

This aem. I went to Kinshasa on the train. Ate dinner
with Gordons - Getting over a fence I tore very badly
my nice new trowsers that Sophie had just made for me

& today I was wearing them just for show (7) I went to
Ndolo in p.m. with Messrs. Howell & Glark to meet the
wives of the afore said gentlemen, who had been at home
in Eng. for 6 months and just returned to their husbands-
with them came Mr. & Mrs. Dodds, a newly married couple
& Mr. & Mrs. Whitehead - who have been to Congo before &
after a years vacation have just returned. The meeting
of the husbands & wives who have been separated so long
was rather cool for an American to witness - merely a
formal shake hands & then branch off on the topics of
the day. I got home at 7 o'clock just before a storm.

Wednesday May 3 - 99

Today we waited patiently all the forenoon to receive
the mail which came up last night. About noon were
given some papers - & some seeds. We thank you for the
boston papers & the garden seeds ~- and Flora for the
papers she sent ~ we have not had a letter from Mother.
We rec'd the April No. of Ladies Home Journal - the
first we have had this year - Jan. Feb. & Mar. we have
missed. Yet we have read them for Mrs. Gordon gets
them - & hot hers O.K.
