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deek in the sun, someone took one of the horns - good Chinese obat. 
We were pleased to see that our animals appreciated the 
marketing we did for them in Bombay. The blue sheep like the new 
hey, the ma was kuda likes grapes, as do most of the gibbons (even 
little Stengah who is so ill sat up and ate a few grapes), and all 
the monkeys like siri leaves ,xsnp 
August 22 - 
I fed. my gibbon line this morning, chopped up a bucket of 
apples, and then spent the rest of the morning nursing Stengah, 
who died in the early afternoon, apparently of pneumonia . 
In the If te afternoon the captain called all hands on deck 
to cover our cages and lash them all securely* as he had had 
warnings of bad werther ahead* The sea had been grey and swollen 
all day, with a damp wind blowing, but about four o f clock the Captain 
said the barometer had dropped suddenly, and he expected trouble. 
Everything was made as tight as possible, but nothing happened. 
The Silverash rides steadily in a moderate sea. In the evening 
the moon came out, and made the Arabian Gulf ripple with light. 
But for a few moments in the afternoon, with the wind whistling 
through the superstructure, and men struggling to hold the billowing 
tarpaulin in place while it was lashed over and around our animals, 
it was a bit exciting. At last the Sou T west Monsoon seemed about 
to catch up with us* 
Karachi, according to the Captain, is a difficult port to make. 
He was planning to arrive about midnight, and anchor outside the 
harbor until he could get a pilot in the morning to take us in. 
He wirelessed ahead, in the face of the storm warnings, and received 
an answer that cur ship would be tat en in whenever it arrived. 
Anchoring outside in weather, even such as this, is impossible. 
Traveling on a cargo boat is entirely different, and in many 
ways much more interesting, than traveling on a passenger bo?t . 
One becomes vitally interested in the cargo that comes aboard, and 
the amazing variety of it, and the intricate way in which it has to 
be stowed* The Captain does not know ahead of time exactly how 
much cargo he will take on in a certain port, or what its destination 
will be, but when he unloads, the Halifax cargo has to be on the 
top, and the New Orleans cargo on the bottom, no matter where he 
has taken it aboard. It is all plotted out in sections, and 
allowance made ahead for various things. Coffee and bonemeal n' 
cannot be stowed in the same hatch, or oil and rubber, or gmpiil le fU^uyu^ 
and eotton. In Bombay we took on te^eme^L, rjo^ ) sj^J) { Pv^ot 
August 2? - 
When we woke, we were alongs de the wharf in Karachi, and 
bales of cotton, skins, sesame seed, Japanese pots and pans, and 
an amazing variety of cargo were already being loaded. Ps soon as 
cmstoms and immigration formailities were over, we went ashore. 
We had been met by Mr. A . Khan and by Nazirmohaned, a rascally-»look-~ 
ing animal dealer. The letter accompanied us, and we went first to 
the Consulate, where we had rather a bewildering reception due to 
