We spent the night at Psngkalan Branda, stopping at a 
queer Chinese hotel. I think Europeans ere not frequent guests 
there, and we had difficulty in getting any food or service at all- 
June 25 - 
We reached Medan in the middle of the morning, and did our 
u^ual frantic rushing about, trying to do a month's business in an 
our - the Consulate, the bank, the K. P. M. office, Sen Hap's, etc. 
Bill talked to the agent for the Silverash, and was informs tne 
ho-t co^ld not stop at Baltimore first, as we had hoped. Going *v 
Halifax late in September is taking an awful chance on weather, and 
we don't want to do it. 
Late in the afternoon we reached camp at Siantar, and as 
usual it was good to be home again. Here was word waiting for us 
that the Maharajah of Mysore has shipped two gaur for us to Bombay 
to be quarantined there, and picked up by us on the way home. 
The bovs have gathered in some more hornbills, a few new 
monkeys including a young Entellus that ^ „^'^ f ,^°\^ eT 
Felis minuta. Harry, however, is not so well. His digestion is 
not working properly, and he is far too thin. 
All night there were strange new noises in the back yard 
to keep me awake . Whenever we come back from a trip I hay e to 
get used to the pacing of the bear in his big metal lined cage, 
to the cries of the little wild cats and the roar of the big 
tiger, and to the conversation carried on by such nocturnal 
animals as the musang and the squirrels. 
June 26-28 
It ha c taken three days of hard work to get caught up on 
correspondence and accounts. The boys' turned over their accounts 
to me, and I got a statement from the Hotel covering all our 
expenses since the end of March. Bill wrote dozens of letters, 
and I began to feel that the office work of this expedition is 
pretty heavy. 
The Brues left on the morning of the 28, headed for Palem- 
bang, then Bali, Macassar, end Java. 
June ZO - 
About six in the evening a pony cart drew up to our front 
door and a fresh young girlish voice asked if Dr. Mann was here. 
Out stepped Miss Barbara Lawrence, from the M.C.Z. at Harvard, just 
landed in Sumatra and in search of information about the animals 
of the Island. She is collecting dead specimens, birds ana mammals, 
and has just been in the Philippines, where she apparently tramped 
all over the wilds, living in lumber camps and native villages, 
doing her own shooting and skinning. We invited her to stay to 
dinner, and after dinner we took her to the Pasar Jkaiam, trie 
"evening market" or carnival, that is now taking place on the 
nearest vacant lot. 
