About midnight Bill went in to see how Williams was feeling, 
and then took hip temperature with our thermometer. To our horror 
the thermometer went right up to the top, registering 106 end 
points north. We woke up the ship 's doctor, who took his temper- 
ature'with his own thermometer, and found that ours has gone 
f looey either due to tropical hardships or too much bouncing 
around! Williams is sick', but his fever was one and a half degrees- 
Celsius, whatever that is - less than 1C6, anyway. 
April 6 - Soerabaia 
We arrived at Soerabaia early in the morning, and came ashore 
after 8 leisurely breakfast on deck. The Governor-General is in 
town today, and all the flags are flying in his honor. Even the 
bullock carts have bright-colored yokes and decorations - the city 
is very gay. ill these Javan cities are neat and clean; well- 
painted, white and yellow, ?nd tidy as only a Dutch town can be. 
The buildgmgs look very attractive in their setting of palm trees, 
hibiscus, casuarina, crotons, and other typical foliage. 
The Hotel Oranje gave us a room, built on the same spacious 
plan as the Sumatran hotels, but with mosquito nets over the beds 
instead of" the screened mosquito room that liked so much in Medan 
and Eianter. 
About ten-thirty we set out for the Zoo, and were joined by 
the Sheriffs. We had a very nice morning, and found lots of _ 
interesting things in the Zoo. The bird collection was especially 
fine, including enormous woodpeckers, white starlings Irom -oaii, 
"leatherheads" a sort of pigmy hornbill from , ew Guinea, and fairy 
bluebirds. A pair of anoas had produced a. young one, which was 
brown and white and auite unlike its parents in appearance. The 
first brnteng we had ever seen munched like a great black buo-l m 
his paddock. Mynahs crawled over the tapirs, looking for ticks or 
something. The deer were getting their new horns - sure enough, 
this is fall, not spring, in this part of the world. 
We had lunch ft the Oranje Hotel, ?nd in the middle of lunch 
Bill was called to the telephone. The American # Consul was on tne 
wire saving there was a cable from the Consul m Calcutta, ine 
cable was the best news we had had so far, namely, the Assam Govern- 
ment is willing to capture a rhinoceros for us, and deliver it to 
Calcutta. After being turned down by the Dutch on a permit for 
rhino, this was thrilling news indeed, and Bill almost had hysterics 
of iov. We all had several drinks on the strength of it, and 
suddenly decided to go to Bali instead of staying in Soerabaia for 
two days. Why we had not thought of it before I don't know, but 
we hastily repacked, abandoned our laundry, films, and any possible 
mail, and s iled at five o'clock on the Van der Lijn. 
The coast of Java, seen from the ship ft sunset, was very 
lovely, with the sky pearly pink behind the purple masses oi the 
mountains. 
April 7 - Bali 
We lrnded at six in the morning, and after some del*y in 
getting ashore, found ourselves in the hot little town of Boeleling 
on the northern coast of the island. Many American tourists from 
our boat were going across to Den Pasar, on the other side, but we 
