soldier, living on a small pension (F1.70) from the German Govern- 
ment. With a long sandy beard, end heir with no grey in it, only 
the lines of his face and the stoop to his shoulders, betray his 
age. He took us out to his place, a smell stucco house on the 
outskirts of town, hidden by crotons and with a row of orchids 
just inside the wooden gate. Over the gate is picture of e long- 
necked dog (rather giraffe-like) and the Malay waning ?Awas - 
pndeine". Beware of the dog! Inside was a plentitude ol animals, 
and one very friendly canine, chained. Forty Celebes macaques 
showed their excellent teeth, and put their hands through the 
bars of their cages, begging for attention or food. Crates of 
Java sparrows, lories, parrots, parrekeets of all colors - Driiiient 
green, red, purple, orange, yellow, - even one lory that was all 
black, and a great pet of the old man's. He had one large casso- 
wary, several deer, a tame brush-tailed porcupine that was great 
friends with the dog, crocodiles, lizards, geckos, one big snake 
and several smaller ones. Most of the stuff is being got ready 
for the long voyage home, as Danesch has bought it from him. Danisch 
has a permit for fmciyxxsBkis twenty monkeys, and has just wired 
for permission for twenty more. 
The old man brought out various treasures to show us, one 
at a t lit e. He had two babirusa skulls, with the backward- curving 
xkuiix almost touching the forehead; the skin of *ks a huge 
python: two guide books to European Zoos; a picture of a Komodo 
dragon cut from an article by Ditmars. On the .walls were pfitures j 
of Hitler, and a large. Swastika. uJx wcaM o c^Jt ^ ^ p^r 
We had reistafel at the hotel - not particularly good, and 
then a nap. When we /awakened it was raining, and we spent the 
rest of the afternoon and evening around the hotel. It is much 
like other Dutch E P st Indian hotels, but the food is nothing to 
brae about - everything labeled with fancy French names, but 
a disappointment to the palate. -One curious custom* is having 
a heavy metal plate with the number of your room placed on the 
table as a sort of name-card. Our table, with the three plates, 
looks particularly reserved and no outsider would dare sit at it 
I am sure. 
At ten-thirty, as we were about to retire, I called for a 
boy to bring us blanket s. Nights out here are apt to be cool, and 
some sort of coverlet is usually desired about four m the morn- 
ing. Apparently not in M P cassar, for the boy looked amazed at the 
idea, and out of the Malay speech he made, I gathered that the 
blankets were locked up, the man who had the key had gone to bed, 
and we could not have blankets before tomorrow. So with a ram 
coat and a kimono as precautions against a cold spell, we went 
comfortably to sleep in our klammbo. 
April 11 - Macassar l.f^:;'-v - 'S^' 
I spent the early morning doing some letter-writing for 
Bill, who is doing his best to catch a rhinoceros by correspondence 
having been forbidden by the Dutch government to catch one per- 
sonally. Later on we went out to see Lie Tjiong Yong, a Chinese 
florist, who has a marvelous orchid garden, many beautiful tropi- 
cal fish, including two Celebes species that were new to us, ana 
a few birds. One lory was very gorgeous, red, green yellow - bin 
said he thought its mother had been frightened by an orchid. 
