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Good-natured as Captain Rowe is, I think he would draw the line 
at a large consignment of durian aboard - he complains already that 
the animal cages smell a bit strong. Three of the Siamese gibbons 
have colds and no appetite at all. We tempt them with boiled sweet 
potatoes, onions, oranges, apples, rice, bread and honey, milk 
and oatmeal, greens, and bananas. One old lady, known as Grandma, 
eats like a pig, but most of the others are choosy, and Stengah, 
Mr. Black, and Skinny, won't eat anything. I can't see what they 
live on. 
The most serious loss to date is that our of male serow. 
That really is a blow. These goat antelopes have never been 
seen alive in the States, and we Jhocexx had a fine pair from Fort 
de Kock that we were hoping to get safely back to the Zoo. 
The young orang from Borneo is sneezing. 
P tiny finch escaped from its cage this morning while Davis 
was cleaning, and flew into the big orang 's cage. The great villain 
bent over, sniffed at the tiny bird, but didn't touch it, whereupon 
it flew out, was captured by Davis, and put safely back into its 
cage, probably never realizing what a narrow escape it had had. 
Harry is still unreconciled to his cage, and is getting 
himself a bad set of menagerie marks. It is a problem what to do 
with him, for he is frightened when he is out on deck, and is 
rubbing great sores on his nose when he is in the cage. 
August 18 - 28 Bombay 
I wonder if envone ever came to Bombay for few days ana 
saw as little of it as" we did. We hurried from the Consulate 
to the Zoo to the bank to the ship and back again. Fvery moment 
we spent ashore we were worrying about our charges on board, and 
yet there was a lot of business to attend to in town. 
Our first call war of course on the Consul, where we 
picked up some mail. Then out to the Zoo, where we met .^ Super- 
intendent of Parks, Mr. Ahmedi, the head of the Zoo, ?nd the chief 
veterinary officer. Our two gaur, sent here by the Mysore Zoologi 
cal Gardens some six weeks ago, are fine young animals, tame, cow- 
eyed, and sleek. Not very imposing yet - they just look like 
unusually fine calves - but if they live they will be handsome 
bison. 
The 7 oo is in Victoria Gardens, and is more a botanical 
garden than a zoological one. They have some fine specimens, 
however, including a group of sloth bears, a riding camel, huge 
Bengal tigers (one of them tame), a group of langur monkeys, 
a mother leopard with two cubs. 
We arranged to take the cubs, and Phmedi secured a full- 
grown male for us in addition - a tall, light colored Persian 
leopard. He also gave us the langurs, but we were unable to 
get a permit to take them out. There is a government law that 
monkevs may not be shipped during the Southwest Monsoon. 
