6 SAFARI 



near the water were heron and egrets, while out on 

 the surface floated ducks of half a dozen species, 

 divers and coots. The trees were laden with moss. 

 Flowers grew profusely everywhere. Best of all, 

 right there at our feet, lay the fresh spoor of wild 

 elephants. 



Lake Paradise indeed! 



Because others will want to follow in our footsteps 

 it is only fair to give more of the details of our voyage 

 out. 



Someone who had influence with the steamship 

 company arranged a very pleasant surprise for us. 

 We had secured a good first class cabin on the steamer 

 from New York but had not even got settled when 

 the purser came and said that he had been instructed 

 to give us a suite. So the first thing we knew we 

 found ourselves in five palatial rooms with all our 

 own baggage. 



"I suppose we'll wake up any minute and find it 

 isn't true!" laughed Osa. 



Kalowatt, our Gibbon Ape, wandered from one 

 room to another and was perfectly at home. She 

 had been for long our constant companion, mentor 

 and friend. We had run across her some years 

 before in the interior of Borneo on a trip several 

 hundred miles inland. On that occasion we travelled 

 on a jimk owned and captained by a Chinese widow, 

 then by grass-roofed dugouts up the shallower 



