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and they ere all over the place, men, women end children, packed in 
between decks. They have straw mats to lie on, and fresh air is 
pumped in to then, through ventilators, but the atmosphere is dark 
and thick. They form a procession to go to the kitchen to get 
their food in conical baskets, and have to pass by our animals en 
route, so if it is mealtime below decks we can T t get near our stock. 
The coolies don f t annoy the animals, but they are living so close 
to them, hanging their laundry over bird cages, lifting the cloth 
curtains that we put in front of the timid birds, etc., that it 
is worrisome. However, we were lucky to get on this boat at all. 
The agent in Macassar was supposed to cable about our coming, which 
he did not do, and when we arrived in Coerabaia yesterday there 
was theoretically no space for our Zoo. Passage had been reserved 
for eighteen ponies, and Coenraad persuaded the agent to leave the 
ponies there for another eight days, and take us instead. 
ay 15 - Batavia 
/Bill is feeling better, and we went ashore in the morning. 
We were met by Niemans, Ter Tiethof f , and others of the Bureau of 
Economic Affairs, and they inspected our menagerie with much interest 
and praise. Several of our lories were new to them, not being 
represented in either the Batavia Zoo or the Buitenzorg Museum. 
We went up town and to the bank, then to the Zoo, where Niemans 
kindly presented us with a pair of Loetong monkeys, a pair of 
big bint urongs, ten Borneo gavials, two Tantillus storks, and two 
Brahminy kites. These were to be crated and sent down to the boat. 
We had lunch at the Hotel des Indes, and I could not resist 
having reistafel again. I am learning now to pick and choose, 
