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Williams met us, practically recovered from his flu. Being on the 
Treub was like getting back to the Plancius again. Here also was 
H. Danisch, the scout for /mazonica, coming out to Macassar to 
pick up his animals. Bill, Coenrard, snd Danisch spent the whole 
day discussing the possibilities of getting animals in the Celebes 
?nd the Moluccas. 
April 10 - Macassar 
We landed about seven in the morning, Bill very wobbly and 
still suffering from a pain in his rib. He and I went on ahead to 
the Grand Hotel, while Coenread buzzed about the docks, looking 
up various captain friends of his who could give him information 
about New Guinea , whither he is thinking of going. When he 
joined us at the hotel he was sputtering about his permits, for a 
change. Permits that he thought had been granted him last Decem- 
ber had not yet arrived, and anoas and babirusas, which he thought 
were ready for the Zoo, had not yet been caught. Moreover, Nicobar 
pigeons belonging to him were traveling back and forth on a ship 
between Macassar and New Guinea - couldn't be landed for lack of 
permits. Bill meanwhile is biting his fingernails in anxietv over 
his request for permits for birds of Paradise and crowned pigeons. 
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We made a brief and formal call on the Dutch Resident, who 
s very pleasant, although he had few suggestions as to how to 
ther a collection of animals in his district. 
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Next door to the Residency is the police station, and here 
... three anoas, consigned to the S 0 erabaia Zoo, but permit-less! 
Originally there were five; two have died, and one looks pretty 
feeble now. This business of the government protecting the ani- 
mals is a complicated one. At first we were indignant over their 
slowness in giving us per : ssion to cart awry whatever we could 
corral; now we begin to see their point of view. There are about 
three collectors to every animal out here, and the government 
must be dizzy trying to keep ail these requests straight. The 
anoas are about half-grown, pretty brown calves, two of them with 
well-developed horns, and quite f ri sky . 
e had heard vaguely about a Chinaman who kept some birds 
for sale, and down a side street in the Chinese quarter we went, 
looking for him. He was well-known in his own district, and we h? d 
no difficulty in finding his shop. Out in front were several 
cages of white cockatoos, and after looking at them we were led 
through his shop, with its living quarters in the rear, back to 
the little cobble-stoned alley that was the backyard. The first 
thing we saw was two young cassowaries, not yet in color, but 
strolling calmly a bout and pecking up any bits of rice or greenery 
that came their way. Bill promptly bought them, and advanced 
five guilders for their board until our return. The man also had 
some black-capped lories, and some racket-tailed parrakeets, and 
we asked hiia ho have six pairs of each for us on our return. 
From this man we heard of another one, and went to see him. 
He also had two young cassowaries, and more lories and parrots. 
This seems to be a good place for the world's most brilliant birds. 
We came back to the hotel, and Danisch arrived with Con- 
stantin Gerds. Gerds is an old German who has been out here nearly 
forty years, and never gone back to his own country. He is an old 
