An Englishwoman's twenty-five years in tropical Africa: being the biography of Gwen Elen Lewis, missionary to the Cameroons and the Congo . no end of flies now and a good manymosquitoes. What they will be in the rainy seasonI dont know! There is so much bush about. Agood deal has already been cleared, but there ismuch yet to be done. It is so unfortunate thatTom has no one to help him responsibly. Ofcourse we have a lot of men, but they need con-stant looking after. My boys are just beginningto be of use, and on Sunday two little girls come from Makuta. September 10th. (To Miss Et
An Englishwoman's twenty-five years in tropical Africa: being the biography of Gwen Elen Lewis, missionary to the Cameroons and the Congo . no end of flies now and a good manymosquitoes. What they will be in the rainy seasonI dont know! There is so much bush about. Agood deal has already been cleared, but there ismuch yet to be done. It is so unfortunate thatTom has no one to help him responsibly. Ofcourse we have a lot of men, but they need con-stant looking after. My boys are just beginningto be of use, and on Sunday two little girls come from Makuta. September 10th. (To Miss Ethel Percival.)—Ourgarden is getting on. Yesterday Uncle and I putin peas and beans. The melons and cucumbers arecoming up, and the flowers, some of them, willsoon be in blossom. Uncles carpenter has turnedup ill, and has had to go away for several days,also one bricklayer. It is very trying, as it keepseverything back. Mr. Moon arrived on Monday,and to-day, Thursday, he has gone off to his oldstation to see about his things. His wife and twochildren are left in America. He has his mealswith us, and seems a nice quiet man, and very. 1908] SETTLEMENT AT KIMPESE 303 earnest. The weather is getting very much days lately it has been 86° or 87° in theshade. October 7th. (To Miss Ethel Percival.)—It wastoo bad to put you all off last mail with a ,wasnt it ? But really I could not help it. I wasso rushed, and in consequence, of course, head-achy. On the Sunday Uncle was very poorly, andI had to take service. He got better, and managedto finish a classroom he was putting up with ironwalls and grass roof. It is divided by a partition,and we moved into it on Wednesday. We had justgot in, thinking to get everything in readiness forthe visit of the Trustees on Friday, w^hen came back from Matadi, as we expected, andwith him Mr. Lowrie, from Mabaya, on his wayhome. We were very pleased to see him, but ofcourse there had to be a fly round to get him bed,chop, &
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