Chapter Twenty-one 
KENYA (II) 
HAD been given a free hand to collect whatever I thought 
suitable for restocking the Zoo and in this I found the people 
of Kenya helpful beyond words. The press made an appeal on my 
behalf, the radio station broadcast my requirements, and the 
military authorities notified the troops that I was prepared to ac- 
cept any pet animals, either as gifts or by purchase: this latter 
after an order had appeared stating that they would not be allowed 
to take their pets home. From this source I procured a cheetah 
and four Ring-tailed Lemurs that had been brought back from 
Madagascar. Settlers responded by presenting me with all sorts 
of things from Bush Babies and Tree Hyraxes to a buffalo and an 
eland. 
The greatest difficulty was the construction of the necessary 
traveling crates, as materials such as nails, hinges, screws, etc., 
were in short supply and obtainable only by permit. 
Much of the cage construction was guesswork, as I had often to 
visualize the size of certain animals by their owner’s brief or 
vague description. This was of little import in the case of small 
mammals, but when a letter arrived asking if I would care to 
accept a cow eland, a lot of head-scratching took place before I 
had finished designing a suitable crate. 
The settler in question solved the problem of transporting this 
crate from his nearest station to the farm and back, a distance of 
twelve miles each way, by driving the eland to the station and 
crating it there. This will give an idea of the tameness of the 
animal, and was in fact typical of most of the creatures in my 
collection, as they had nearly all been hand-reared. 
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