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What was the date ? Killed on the 20th ! Already four days since 

 it was caught. Dzaoudzi was almost certainly not the kind of 

 place where you could just go and buy formalin. 



I was too distracted to speak very much, for with all these 

 perplexities my mind was slipping about like a rubber-clad foot 

 on a muddy street, and would not get settled firmly in one place. 



It is rather remarkable that neither in my mind nor in my 

 wife's was there in those early tense moments of realisation any 



GRAND 

 COMORO 



MAYOTTE 



PAMANZI 



-f-^'po' 



Fig. 3. — The islands of the Comoro group. The arrow shows where Malania 



was caught. 



vestige of pleasure or rejoicing. We had endured so much over 

 the first Coelacanth that we just had a feeling that Coelacanths 

 meant trouble, at least to us. And now this had come in a fashion 

 and at a time that looked as if it was going to be no better, prob- 

 ably worse. There were so many difficulties sticking out clearly 

 ahead, we could hardly see anything else. 



Dagger soon after took his leave, to be replaced almost at once 

 by Guy Drummond Sutton, Frank Evans, and then Dr. George 

 Campbell, all Durban men and old friends. I took the reporter 



