This and flour and salt were then kneaded into a dough, which, when placed in a tin mold, which was placed in a larger iron pot with a lid and serving as an oven, formed an excellent bread, which during baking often rose high above the edges of the mold.

The almost standard dish for dinner consisted of chicken fried in palm oil with very hot pepper and boiled rice, sometimes also palm oil chop, also this hot pepper, which dishes were generally preferred to the monotonous preserves.

In the evenings, chicken in oil or some preserved meat usually came to the table, as well as fruit or pea flour soup, after which we lit our pipes over a steaming cup of tea.

After the silence at the factory, the best time for notes and conservation began, here even more favored by the almost complete absence of mosquitoes, which in some places, as at Ekundu, made such late employment impossible. For another couple of weeks, until the end of June, the investigations at Ndian were continued. But the rain poured more and more often through the air, the moments when the sun broke through the gray wall of clouds became more and more rare. From the beginning, my intention was to remain at Ndian over the rainy season, but when one day word came that Linnell would leave the factory for a trip to Fernando Po, I also decided to leave Ndian and go to Bonge, where, from what seemed to be evident during the Christmas visit, the best harvests were to be expected. The country was more open there, the animal life seemed richer, and the forest easier to explore.