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ing us the hard line African's point of view either. But from the two I distilled for myself the basic nature of the conflict that exists.

We read in the papers the next morning that about an hour after we left Pretoria they had the biggest hailstorm in years. so our weather was a couple of hours behind us but it caught up with us the next day. In Capetown we found that our "unusual wea- ther" was still with us. It was rainy and foggy so that we were unable to go to the top of Table Mountain. We took quite a bus trip around the cape area including going out to the tip of the capr of Good Hope itself and seeing the line of demarcation of the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. They are of different tempera- tures and of different shades of blue-green and the "line" can be seen. We also learned that the Cape is not actually the southern- most point of the African continent but that there is another cape about a hundred miles east that is a few miles further south. However it was very windy and cold and most of us felt that we were just as happy where we were than further south.

The only other thing to be commented on about Capetown is that they roll up the sidewalks at night. Our hotel was in the downtown district about two blocks from the railroad station. Most everyone lives in the suburbs so after six in the evening there is just nothing going on--no stores, no movies, no people, no nuthin'. You stay in your hotel because there is nowhere else to go and it isn't safe to be just wandering the streets alone.

Next stop was a long flight to Nairobi in Kenya. This is a very interesting city --very modern, very bustling and very black. I had lost one of the little screws out of my glasses and had to locate an optician's shop and also a camera store. So I was out walking by myself, the only white face in blocks. Yet I felt much more comfortable than I would have walking around Harlem or CentralAve in Los Angeles. The man at the opticians shop was an

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