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Mgy 6- Macassar 
We arrived at Kaeassar late in the afternoon, end Williams ^and 
I went up to the Grand Hotel. Bill end Coenraad stayed on board for 
some time to see what arrangements they could make about storing tfte^ 
animals until our steamer goes. Through the kindness of the k. F. m 
we were allowed to leave them on the Van Imhoff, ana Coenraaa was 
allowed to stay on board the entire time it was in port - a most 
unusual privilege, but one thrt greatly facilitates taking care 01 
our stock. 
The Grand Hotel is much as it was, except that the food does not 
seem so bad, after our days in Piroe, and there is a Mode ?JPOSitie o 
fashion show going on. I talked to the two girls who run it. They 
have come over from Soerabaia hoping to sell some clothes to the women 
here but say that business has been bad. The Macassar women are so 
used'to maling their own clothes that it seems extravagant to them to 
buy ready-medes. Bill was amused to have one of them hail him, ask 
him if he was the "Zoo man", and say that her husband, a tailor, had 
made clothes for Brown of the Sidney Zoo when he was here. 
May 7 - 
Bill was very thrilled this morning to meet Capt. Diederich of 
the K. P. M. S. S* Van Cloon, who is something of a naturalist ana 
has picked up a few animals, which he was glad to turn over to Bill 
at cost. Among other acquisitions of the day were three anoas and m 
a babirusa, from Capt. Diederich., % 0_ * awpt^ a »<u,<rv ■ 
Gerds has quantities of birds - parrots and lories in every color 
of the rainbow, and has also made so e good cages for us. 
Fy 8 - 
There seem to be complications about taking the anoas out of 
Macassar. The Resident says Diederich had no right to sell # them to 
us, as they had been confiscated by the poljce. Coenrrad is buzzxng 
about wildly trying to get matters straightened out. 
In the evening we dined with Mr. F. A. fmits at the Harmonie 
Club - very pleasant to sit outdoors, have a fairly decent meal, 
and even a dance. :|" : II;Si" : ^ 
May 9 - 
We left the Hotel at nine o'clock, and drove to Bantimoerong, 
27 miles inland. There is a very pretty water fall here, ena we 
climbed up an iron stairway that runs along the edge of at. Above 
the falls the rocky walls of the gorge xwi rise straight up, with 
interesting-looking caves here and there. We wexkea through trie 
stream "over very sharp rocks for a couple of hundred yards, and then 
struck a nice little path that led through cool da p forest. Bill 
had a happy morning collecting ants; he found eight more Polyrachus, 
and one new type of nest - a leaf doubled over and sewed together 
with silk. In the stream he caught several specimens of a smail 
fish that resembles Hemiramphis. I found a tiny boa on a bush, and 
we left it there. Smits collected so e plants, ana Panted out 
various types of orchids, including a white ground orchid that was 
very fragrant. Bill caught a remarkable butterfly - the upper 
wings clear, the lower ones long and scissor-like. It is blue, bi^.cK 
