12 TRAPPING WILD ANIMALS 
The Fryer show opened in Kansas City and then 
worked right out to the coast. After a month in 
San Francisco, we jumped to Hawaii. We showed 
a month at Honolulu and the King rarely missed 
a performance. We had a royal box fitted up for 
him, and he had as good a time as any of:the 
youngsters. From Honolulu we went to Auckland, 
New Zealand, where we found a twenty-day quar- 
antine on all animals. We managed to get along 
by giving performances in the Theatre Royal—just 
the acts that required no animals. After that we 
went to Australia and showed at all the large 
towns; then we shipped to Java. Next we visited 
the Malay Peninsula, where later I was to spend 
many years in collecting animals. 
During these long voyages, I spent much of the 
time with Gaylord, listening to his stories of experi- 
ences with animals. I had many questions to ask 
and Gaylord, whose fund of information was inex- 
haustible, always answered them and told me more 
besides. 
A few days after we arrived at Singapore, he 
said: “Do you want to come with me while I buy 
some animals?’ Naturally, I jumped at the chance. 
We went to the house of Mahommed Ariff, the 
Malay dealer who held a monopoly on the animal 
trade. He was squatted in the center of his court- 
yard, surrounded by cages containing the animals 
brought in from the jungle by his native agents. He 
was a wicked old devil and a man had only to glance 
