CHAPTER 5-". . can understand and use more Creole
 now"

Jan. 15-Our church in the north near Gonaives is sit-
 uated out of town in the country district of Canal
 Bois. From P.-au-P. to Gonaives we traveled in a
 fairly modern bus, and to Canal Bois in a truck.
 Returning, we could not get a truck ride so we rode
 the 8 miles into town through the brilliantly moonlit
 countryside on a spiritless Haitian nag. From the
 front seat of a truck we got an excellent view of
 the central coast of Haiti as we returned to P.-au-P.
 the next morning over the 90 miles of rut-ridden, un-
 predictable Haitian "road."
 The country church in Canal Bois was as pretty as
 a picture, surrounded on three sides by a neat vege-
 table garden and with a towering mango tree in front
 shading the clean-swept earth. Over 100 people
 crowded into the mud-walled, thatch-roofed sanctuary
 for the service. Preachers from this church hold
 services in four outstations regularly, so you see it
 is really a missionary church.
Jan. 19-Mrs. Scott gave us a whole stack of her rose
 cuttings which I have planted in a plot back of the
 house for rooting. If they all grow (which they won't,
 of course), we would have no room for anything else.
 This evening we had the first of the lettuce. No, it
 isn't really ready yet; but since we had none on hand
 from the market, we picked the biggest leaves and
 ate them-very good and tender. But the chickens
 and dogs just about have them all dug up or broken
 off.
 Monday our little girl started to school and her
 mother started working for us. Mary can hardly find
 enough work for her to do. She does the dishes in
 less than half the time her daughter did and she irons