bacon - corned beef, doughnuts and nice biscuits. For
supper - well we had a good one. The day passed off in
the regular or ordinary way except that the Rail Road Co.
brought me from Matadi 300 packages for transport work &
for our missionaries at Luebo. Tonight we had the Euro-
pean & American mails and Mrs. Crowley, had a no. of let-
} ters addressed to Miss Wright = from her mother, sister
and others. The first time she has had any mail since she
came to Africa and I never saw anyone so proud and over~
joyed. It is wonderful the effect the first batch of

letters has on a fellow, or I should say a person who is
so far from home. Good night.

Tuesday Jan. 4 = 1896

Good morning! We are well, how are you? Ah, we are glad
you are looking so pleasantly. Yes we have had a good day
Sophie made some apple pies and bekem the nicest loaf of
bread. I gave some sick people some medicine and purchase
some matches & sardines for Dr. Sims, and did the other
necessary things on a transport mission station. Mr. &
Mrs. Graham were over to see us this afternoon - and as
we were eating supper Mr. Pinnock came in and he had a
cup of tea with us. Today I resumed my work again teach-
ing the boys. Next Monday Mrs. Graham will reopen the
school and Mrs. Crowley will be her assistant. She gave
a vacation of two weeks. At the close of the term she
held an examination and two of my boys were awarded
prizese That is all for today. I forgot to tell you the
kind of a tins Sophie used for baking bread & cake. It
was a little tin about 8 in. long 4 in. wide and 4 in.
deep. One of the tins that Huntly & Palmer puts up their
biscuits in. I cut of the top to make it a little lower
and it mad a very symetrical bak tin for one loaf of brea:

Wednesday Jan. 5 ~ 1898

We are all well, and getting on nicely. Mrs. Crowley is
now running the house & I run the rest of the business.
We wish some of our American friends could drop in for a-
while this eve and have a nice little visit with us -~
But no: such good luck. I made some purchases today
bought some sardines - 4 case & two cases milk. I paid
for them in quilts = also 10 small boxes soap, as. Dr.
Sims wanted some.
