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instead of taking every ingredient that co es along, end I make 
a better mixture than I did the first time. 
After lunch we stopped at a Batik market, and I got fiye^ 
lovely pieces of old batik. It is as soft es silk, and dyed in 
isygiy rich colors, roost of the pieces having f good deal of blue. 
We sailed at four. Four i inutes later our animals from the 
Zoo arrived. We saw the truck drive onto the dock, and then turn 
and go back to the Zoo again. Dr. Coenraad sent a cable to ship 
them on the next boat, but that is not as satisfactory as taking 
them home with 'us. 
May 17 - Singapore W^M^^i^M^^ 
We docked at seven, and sailed at ten-thirty, which did not 
give u* much t<me ashore. We found an invitation waiting for 
us from Consul General Davis, so we went to his house for break- 
fast* Wplter Foote was there, and Mrs. MacEnally, wife of the 
Consul, so we had a nice American get-together over fried eggs, 
sausage and pane?! es, and real American coffee. 
Harold Coolidge sent down two little Himalayan bear cubs, 
which the Consul has been keeping for us. We tool- these with us, 
as we dashed for the steamer at the last moment. 
May 18 - Slant ar 
It was like coming home to see the hills of Sumatra on 
our left when we got up this morning. Even the unattractive port 
of Belawan looked verv good to us, and Davis on the wharf even 
better To our surprise Gaddi was with him. Coolidge wanted to 
take Gaddi with him to Borneo, and we had written the boys to 
send him along if he wanted to go, but Gaddi beamed through his 
tortoise-shell spectacles at us, and said "I want to stay with 
the Doctor. " 
About ten Davis was allowed on board ship, but it was after 
eleven when all the coolies were off, and we could start taking 
off our stock. We had cabled for two trucks with trailers to 
meet us, and we needed every bit of the space. At 12.20 every- 
thing was loaded except the wild pigs, whj ch the Mohammedan 
coolies refused to move. Bill remembered some of his Arabic, 
and blessed one of the men, whereupon the pigs were loaded, and 
we subsided with sighs on the deck of the Op ten Noort, as 
the two trucks started off for Siantar. 
The officers had asked us to remain and have reistafel 
with them, which we did, and it was the best we have had so far. 
Then we got Into a car, and drove up to Medan, stopping 
at the Consulate for mail. In the mail was sad news from home - 
the death of Dr. "'heeler, which occurred on April 20, and the 
death of Dr. Fenyes. 
It wps 5.20 when we reached Siantar, and we were anxious 
to see what the boys had acquired during our absence. They have 
lots of birds - more than we are entitled to, of some species, - 
