The letters end there. None of Gordon's chicks made it to adulthood. He believed that the crows ate them, but I suspect the dog had them for snacks.

To do errands on my final weekend, I was driving the car with the fried battery, which required a pushstart for every departure. At the Post Office, where there are usually a lot of people, several young men helped me out. At the Mwenge market, which specializes in wood carvings by men of the Makonde tribe, I made sure to include a pushstart in my last bargaining session.

Thanks to my sister for saving the letters.

Edward Tingatinga (1939-1972) was a self-taught artist, who worked in Dar es Salaam during the later part of his life. Other men eventually joined him in painting colorful pictures of animals and village scenes. A group of Tingatinga artists have set up a studio and market in Oysterbay, a neighborhood of Dar es Salaam.

Artists including Petro Paulo Mayige and J. Masanja sell small, realistic sculptures at the Makumbusho Village Museum in Dar es Salaam.