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SMITHSONIAN EXPLORATIONS, I926 



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in Dar-es-Salaam. For three days we maintained a menagerie visited 

 by everybody in the city and finally embarked on the Crewe Hall, which 

 took us to Colombo, where we transhipped on the City of Calcutta 

 for a direct run to Boston. We landed with about 1,700 live animals, 

 including the two girafife (which were brought to us at Port Sudan 

 by Mr. Skandar Armenius, assistant game warden of the Sudan, who 

 brought also a shoebill stork), five impalla, a greater kudu, an eland, 

 a blue duiker, red duiker, three white-bearded gnu, four wart-hogs, 

 and quantities of birds, small mammals, and reptiles, 





Fig. 26. — Aboard the steamship, Crewe Ilall. 



VISITS TO THE SERPENTINE DISTRICT OF SOUTHERN 



ENGLAND AND THE GEM-CUTTING TOWN OF 



OBERSTEIN, GERMANY 



Dr. George P. Merrill, head curator of geology in the National 

 Museum, availed himself of the opportunity ofifered by the Geologi- 

 cal Congress in Madrid to visit some of the more important museums 

 of England and on the continent, and also to visit sundry localities 

 of geological and mineralogical interest. Among the more important, 

 mention may be made of a visit to the historical quicksilver mines at 

 Almaden, Spain. The party from the Congress was permitted to 

 descend to the 280 meter level, where a fine massive body of ore 

 (cinnabar) was exposed, embedded in quartzite. A series of typical 



