sweet-eating ants. We sleep under mosquito netting
 all the time, but we still get some bites during the
 day. It is pretty hot nowadays, but cool in morning
 and evening.
June 23-Visitors to P.-au-P. often form erroneous im-
 pressions of many important phases of the Haitian
 life and economy, as we did when we first arrived
 but which we have now changed to a better approxi-
 mation of the truth, we trust.
June 26-Yaws is a disease very closely related to syph-
 ilis (but not a venereal disease) which produces
 open sores on the skin that don't heal very easily.
 The new drug, streptomycin, is doing even better
 than penicillin in curing it, and it cures syphilis at
 the same time.
 We have lost a little weight mainly because of the
 heat. We don't get too hungry for a big meal except
 once in a while. But we aren't skinny. They say
 that it doesn't get any hotter than it is right now, so
 we are quite relieved. We can stand it all right; it
 is just difficult to avoid being out in the sun once
 in a while during the middle of the day.
 Our time, as far as what might be called working
 hours, is very irregular. We just can't keep a regular
 schedule of any sort, because there are always things
 to interrupt us. Part of that is because we have to
 be 2 or 3 persons in our duties. Occasionally business
 and governmental matters (e.g., banking, getting
 things out of customs) take most of our mornings.
 We are having great difficulty to find time for lan-
 guage study now, just when we need it most, because
 we are supposed to be superintending the work, visit-
 ing churches, deciding where to build new churches,
 checking on our preachers and finding out informa-
 tion on building costs and property. In addition to
 that we have to live. I'm trying to get a few cup-