CAMEROON

Meal on the plane to Cameroon, chicken sandwich and water.

Cameroon from the air.

Djeuga Palace Hotel room in Yaounde, the capital. We stayed two nights, and spent one night with the Whitesides.

We met Cameroun's most widely read author, Dr. Charles Ateba Eyene.

Pauline Biyong's offices.

Sign over entrance to Pauline Biyong's Offices. She lives two floors above.

Pauline Biyong, a young employee, and author Eyene.

Pauline's kitchen and her cook.

Pauline's daughter, Donna in her room.

Sue, Sister Whitesides, Pauline, Donna.

Elder Whitesides, Pauline, Donna, Moi, Emmanuel.

Leaving the parking lot.

Whitesides' living room.

Kitchen Yaounde couple's apartment.

Bedroom, couple's apartment Yaounde.

Guest room Yaounde.

Bathroom, Yaounde.

Sister Whitesides' African doll collection.

Kitchen.

Meal preparation.

View of Yaounde from the balcony.

With the Minister of Communication.

Departure morning for Maluku, Pauline's natal village.

Forest on a truck.

Road to Maluku.

Road to Maluku.

Country villa along the road to Maluku.

Bamboo.

Work on Pauline's family compound.

Moth resting on a pillar. If you look at it with imagination it looks like a serpent's head.

Pauline and worker.

Family Chapel built by Pauline's father over fifty years ago.

Inspecting the buildings.

Clearing fields behind the buildings for Plantain plantation.

Inspecting contents of the Chapel library.

Chapel meeting hall.

Pauline's family portrait, sadly in need of conservation.

Villagers gathering on the porch.

Part of the audience. There were more to the right, and off the porch to the left. We enjoyed telling them about the Church and answering questions.

Sleepy time.

Pauline, the Whitesides, and Emmanuel in the background.

Pair of  metallic green longhorn borer beetles.

Part of an elite prep school established by missionaries long ago. now barely functioning. In its heyday it educated many of Africa's current leaders.

Prep School.

Local cattle on school grounds.

I think these are dormitories, but may be classrooms.

Cattle grazing on school grounds, closeup.

Dwelling along the road.

Kids swimming in the river.

Shande-Tonme, international lawyer, author in the courtyard of his home.

Gated entry to Shanda-Tonme's home.

View of Yaounde from the hill where the dedication prayer was pronounced.

Panorama of Yaounde.

We are on the rock where dedication prayer was uttered.

The dedication rock.

Rock art on stone next to the dedication rock.

Here we are.

Entering the La Salsa restaurant.

Carvings for sale at the restaurant shop outside on the patio.

Masks for sale.

At table.

Calade crudite.

Bar garnis (fish) along with fried potatoes.

Pink grapefruit.

Gailey's living room in Douala, Cameroon.

View from living/dining room into office area.

Elder Gailey in living room.

We attended district meeting with the elders in their apartment, Douala, Cameroon.

Missionary bedroom.

Missionaries and Elder Gailey.

Entrance to LDS Church rented meeting house.

Chaepel Sacrament meeting room.

Chapel stand where bishopric and speakers sit.

Whale bones, skull, ribs, vertebrae, baleine.

Another version of salade crudite, delicious.

We came across two of the missionaries while cruising around town. We had stopped for the Gailey's to buy phone minutes from a member who loads them to their phone and to the missionaries phones.

Mosaic of broken tile on the wall at one of the chapels.

View across the mouth of a rive toward the Atlantic Ocean, tanker in the extreme background.

Gaileys and Sue in the wind.

Boarding pass showing all the stamps required before being allowed on the plane.

Meal on return flight to Kinshasa, chicken sandwichm water, and peanuts that the Gailey's gave us to stave off hunger. The peanuts are sold, roasted and lightly salted, in recycled litre plastic bottles in Yaounde, two litre bottles in Douala. They are uniquely crunchy and delicious, and cost about four dollars for the two litre bottle.