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We spent one morning in the market, which is one of the 
finest I have ever seen. The fruit stalls had grapes from Quetta , 
pears from Kashmir, melons from Afghanistan* The flower stalls 
were fragrant and colorful. There was a bird market, but it 
ran mostly to doves and budgerigars, although we picked up a 
dozen brown and yello^ weavers and ten ring-necked parrots. 
We found a couple of private collectors, one of them 
St. John Cowper, who is an enthusiastic aviculturist . He had 
sun birds and roulrouls, jays, and many American and South American 
species, some of which he was raising, 
A Par see took us out to see his collection, which included 
a number of amazingly tame animals. Birds and squirrels perched 
on his fingers as he petted them. He wanted to sell us a y ung 
tiger, but Bill was inclined to believe the animal had a touch 
of rickets, and was afraid to buy it. 
Bombay is an amazing city - huge buildings in Mid-Victorian 
style, with a swarming, colorful population. When we were in 
Sumatra I had thought of making a study of native head-dresses. 
Anyone who took up that hobby here would have a lifetime job. 
Robes and headdresses are of all colors of the rainbow, and all 
different, from the spotted oilcloth hats of the Par sees to the 
little yellow tarns of the police. 
Traffic is dense, and I should think it would be nerve- 
racking to drive in. In additions to the automobiles, bicycles, 
and pedestrians (who never under any circumstances look where 
they are going) there are plenty of gharries - old-fashioned 
vietoria s pulled by rather ancient horses. 
We spent two evenings at Greene T s Hotel, where there is 
dancing with meals. One evening we went with the mate and two 
of the engineers; the second evening with the captain and a 
Miss Edna Flower. The music was good, and we enjoyed dancing. 
We had one lunch in the air-conditioned dining room of the Taj 
Mahal Hotel, a big structure fronting the bay, with domes and 
arcades that make it look like an Indian palace. I believe it 
was built by a Maharajah as a personal hobby. Anyway, w e had 
good curry and rice. 
August 21 - 
When we woke in the morning, we were just pulling 
the harbor. Bill and I went back to our banana -peeling 
promptly after breakfast. Some of our cages have been 
into^ Number 5 hatch, which gives us more room. All the 
siamangs, and Javanese lang-rs are in a line there, and 
have sixteen monks instead of nine to care for. 
We are having difficulties with the Chinese crew, who have 
shown a disposition all along to annoy some of our more nervous 
animals. Now things are beginning to disappear - a giant 
salamander, which could not possibly have got out of its box by 
itself, is gone, and knowing how fond the Chinese are of eating 
them, we have our suspicions. Gaddi preserved the skull and 
skin of the serow that died, but while the skull was drying on 
out of 
routine 
shifted 
gibbons, 
I now 
