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lunch with us. Poor Floyd started out from Shanghai with a 
giant panda, and it died at sea. If anything could be more heart 
breaking than that I can 1 t think of it. He has on board at 
present 48 rare pheasants, and three Chinese alligators. Bill 
begged one of the alligators from him, and we all went down to the 
Andre LeBon, a big Messageries Maritime boat, took off one alliga- 
tor, and carried it by taxi to the Silverash. This is the way 
animal collections are built up I 
We went out to the DeSouzs 1 s in the evening. He is busy 
working with a movie outfit, a picture that seems to be called 
^BoolaT and is laid in Singapore. DeS. is supplying the animals, 
and has little that he wants to sell to anyone else. He has taken 
good care of our blue sheep, and kept them alive in spite of the 
trying Singapore climate* The weather is very bad, just no?/. 
There has been no rain for a week, and days are hot and nights 
stifling. We sleep under an electric fan - always a bad idea, 
and I have caught a cold* 
Capt . Rowe, and the Captain of the Silverwillow were dining 
at the hotel, and we had them join us. 
August 4- 
We started out in the morning to visit some of the Chinese 
bird shops, but inasmuch as a storjr appeared in today 1 s paper 
about "three big animal men r (Bill, Smith and Schultz) being in 
t own , prices were silly. One man had a bear cub which he 
valued at $5 last time we were in town, but this morning he 
asks 25 for it. A baby tiger, just about Harry f s size, was 
priced at $280. The Chinese who owned the matter took us out to 
The New World, where he hps a smpll animal show, and showed us 
a huge Himalayan be?r, a rickety leopard, a small wild cat, and 
a few other things, none of which we bought . As we left him at 
his store again, I noticed a sign over the door which said that 
he was also the agent for ?f leprosy pills. 11 
We went out to Basapa ? s Zoo in the afternoon, and arranged 
for quite a number of things, including a young Borneo orang utan. 
In the evening we had. dinner with the McEnellys, and ha d 
a very pleasant evening* Mr. McE. had two telegrams for us, one 
giving us permit for our extra birds, and the other giving us 
the cubic contents of our Siantar shipment - 2500 feet . We had 
been worrying for fear it might be much more than that. 
August 5 - 
We spent the men, i rig with Basapa at the hotel, and then 
went out to Johore to have lunch with the Tungku Makota. It was 
nice to see our mountain lions and bear and raccoons looking well 
and plump ♦ The Tungku had our shipping cages for us, and two 
black panthers and a no-wattled cassowary to put in them. We 
watched his men shifting the panthers from their Zoo cages to the 
shipping crates, and it was quite an exciting performance, with 
much shouting in Malay before the crates ' ere finally hoisted to 
a big red and gold truck and driven down to the ship. 
The Tungku is a great Zoo enthusiast, and he and Bill 
