are just now on the beginning of the dry season & the
rains are coming less frequent - in fact, we are glad to
see them come & welcome them. I attended the Fiot service
& Mr. Frame had charge. Quite a good house & all went
off nicely. I am now ready for my midday meal -~ dinner
over I went down to the Dutch House to see my friends
for I had not seen them for several days; about 3:30
o'clock just time for service, it raind a good hard rain
and we had no preaching for the Acras. At night there
was no service as Mr. Wooding & wife were off. Mrs. Hill
was needed to assist Mrs. Popel who is dangerously ill.
Messrs. Morgan & Pinock were engaged also. So Mr. Frame
& I were the only ones left & we did not have service. I
read till bed-time and then and retired.

Monday 24 ~ May - '97

2 Kapeta's with their caravans came in for pay» I was
about to give it them but they belonged to A.B.M.U. & Mr.
Hill needed them to go to Lukungut and asked me not to
pay them until tomorrow. One of these Kapetas took Phipps
to the Pool & he was very liberal with his dash's for six
of them had orders for Quilts, Hdkfs. Fish &. It was

ok, though for he had no hammock. Nothing of interest
took place during the day.

Tuesday May 25° 1897

This morning I tore the roof from the boys house that I
had just erected & put the zinc on the south veranda for
a room for MKaku.e. It will make a very nice room for him
& make him feel his importance. Nothing much of interest
took place only I paid the Capetas. Good night.

Wednesday May 26 - 1897

This morning I resumed my work again in arranging the

room for N'Kaku, and I had him and some of the boys making
a floor of ground they called it. I sawed out some jousts
for the veranda & finished the south end. A native died
in the carrier shed today and I went down & had a note
sent to the commissaire to have him burried, which he did.
I understood the poor fellow had been il] about 10 days

& no one to take care of him - whenever any of them get
Sick very badly they turn them out to die.
