officials. We have 82 mammals, 157 reptiles, and 1557 birds - 
8 total of 1790, of which 790 are not rice birds. 
Another cable from Washington says that we will be able to 
take gaur out of Bombay after a 6-week s quarantine, inasmuch as 
they have been in the Mysore Zoo before being shipped to Bombay. 
July 15 - 
Packing up after living in a place for nearly five months 
is a strenuous business, especially when the place is as lively and 
full of interest as our camp. We had a farewell luncheon with 
the Coenraads, nasi goreng for probably the last time, and we were 
allowed in the kitchen to see how it was prepared. We want to 
make it after we go home, and the secret seems to be that it is 
stirred in a cast-iron, round-bottomed pan. 
Ifi the evening we drove over to Dolok Merangir for dinner 
math the Ingles, who have certainly been nice to us out here. 
They have a charming house, with just enough touches of teak and 
brass and batik to give an effect of richness without cluttering 
the rooms. For dinner we had chocolate ice cream, and as I 
suppose we will never eat ice cream again without remembering how 
fond Davis and Jennier are of it, we said something of the sort 
aloud. Whereupon Mr. Ingle insisted that we take some home to 
them, and when we got in the car to go home, there was a big 
freezer, packed in ice. The boys had gone to bed, but not to 
sleep, and they sat up in bed, and simply demolished about a 
quart and a half. 
July 16 - 
It was hard to leave camp and the bo3^s, but we hated 
saying good-bye to Siantar, and to Mr. Goud at the Hotel, too. 
Good old Goud 1 s eyes filled with tears as we drove off. 
Bill had invited Mr. Klein, the traffic manager of the 
railroad, to lunch witn us at the DeBoer , and when Klein told us 
what the railroad was prepared to do for us, we could hardly 
believe in our good fortune. We can have their assistance in 
loading, have a special train at night if necessary, and the 
railroad and the shipping people are going to work together so 
that the animals can be spared as much handling and as many delays 
as possible. 
We had an amusing conference with the Consul in the 
afternoon, going over all the formalities that have to be complied 
with in shipping animals - some of the regulations being compiled 
by the Dutch government and some by our own. The question of 
Consular invoices was a staggering one; our list varies so from 
day to day, the boys are busy enough feeding and cleaning stock 
without spending all their time on paper work, and Bill admitted 
that he had never had to invoice animals before. T! What are the 
invoices for? 11 we asked. f, For the Customs in the United States. " 
tf But, n we chorused, ?, We don f t have to pay any m^&^y 2 xxStag duty. 
These animals are government property. T? Then followed a 
search through the rules and regulations to find out what 
