Thursday Jan 20 ~ 1898

This a.m. very early, Mr. Graham went to the cemetery and
selected a place for the grave. After breakfast, Mr. G.
and myself began covering and trimming a little coffin
that our carpenter had made. We first made a paste of
fleur, then took some unbleached domestic and pasted that
on the outside of the coffin, then we took some nice mus~
lin that Mrs. Crowley had and fixed the inside nicely,
puffing it with cotton lint, then we took some nice cream
lace bobinet and doubled it and tacked it on the outside
over the unbleached white and made a border on the top
and bottom with nice narrow cream silk ribbon. We let
about 2 inches of the bobinet hang over the lid from the
border, which made it look very lovely. Then we took som
lavender ribbon and on the lid we made it thus only
betters sand more artistically and simetrical.
After mac it was finished I took the coffin over
to the ys j ‘ house and put the corps into it, and
screwed d he cover as it was best that no one should
see it. Then I had a small litter made and at 4 o'clock
Ppems the bell tolled and all the people at Tumba nearly
Game out to attend the funeral. Even the catholic ale
priest two small boys carried the corps to the cemejtery
(no hearse) and Mr. Graham read some scripture from sev-
eral parts of the bible had a Congo Hymn & an English
hymn and he prayed in Congo and made a nice little talk
in English. Everything went off nicely. Mr. Silva of
Belgika gave us some potatoes and sent up a nice cake to
Mrs. 0. our neighbors are awfully good. We have fresh
meat sometimes and the heart of a nice beef ocassionally.
Geod night.

Friday Jan. 21 ~ 1898

This morning I went down to Belgika to see a sick man and
found him very bad in deed. I came home & had breakfast
and went down and helped him as much as I could. I could
have done more, but there was a man there who claims to
be a doctor and he is the director for the company, and
eof course I could not do all I wished, but I had my own
way in some things and relieved the poor fellow consider-
ably. I had a caravan to load up and by the time I was
through it was noon. While we were having our little res’
after dinner it began to rain and we had a lovely rain
for about 2 hours - the 18t in about 14 months. I have
another caravan in this eve and I will lead them up in
the a.m. D.V. and start them off. ‘There are a carpenter
and a mason here who are on their way to Mr. Verner's
station Ndombi, and 1 will probably send them of f tomor-
rows We had a nice mess of new potatoes sent in to us
