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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 zodlogical gardens was exactly 
what I wanted, I returned to Singapore elated. 
Ariff 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 
TI 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 
