Loa Derelict Mission off main road to south, 20 miles north of Uganda border, Middle of Nowhere, c/o Nobody. Saturday 1.45 pm Towards the town of Yei My Darling, I hope this letter gets to you quickly enough to arrive before I do. I left for Loa from Juba yesterday within minutes of dashing off that quick covering letter to my long report. I hardly had time to bolt a meal down before we were bumping down to the ferry in the Landrover... I've just finished the lunch washing up, standing on the stoep of the totally derelict mission house (no doors, no windows,, walls showing 11 years of total neglect, except occasional billetting by Northern soldiers , or Anyanya ) swishing plate around in the water from the Nile five miles away. The water comes from a large trailer which is also on the stoep. In front of me is the enourmous church, also derelict. Big cross at the entrance with left bar shot away by northern bullets. Coloured wooden purple heart Jesus with fac...
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