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and bringing them to port, and this loss was invar- 

 iably borne by the dealer. Since the agreement 

 with the Australian zoological gardens was exactly 

 what I wanted, I returned to Singapore elated. 

 Arifr" was crestfallen when he heard the news, and 

 he became more crestfallen when I called on him 

 and told him about the commission I had received 

 from various societies in Australia. I did not want 

 to have him as an enemy, and I foresaw that there 

 would be war between us unless we came to some 

 sort of terms. Consequently, I told him that I 

 wanted to work with him, and that we could do a 

 great deal of business together if he would treat 

 me fairly. He considered the matter for a time, 

 and then, when he saw that I was getting much 

 higher prices for animals than he, he decided that 

 I was right. 



One of my Australian commissions was to secure 

 for the New Gardens, at Perth, a pair of tigers 

 male and female and unrelated. I sent the word 

 out among animal dealers, and, shortly after, I 

 received a cable from a Calcutta dealer named Rut- 

 ledge, asking me to come at once. I took the next 

 boat to Calcutta and found that there were two 

 tigers up-country near Hazaribagh, a mica mining 

 district about three hundred miles northwest of 

 Calcutta, off the line of the railroad. 



I was warned that it was a dangerous country to 

 go through and that the people were thieves. It 

 was suggested to me that I hire a native of the 



