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the feet that Bill absent-mindedly sent in Captain Rove » s card instead 
of his own. When the very new Vice-Consul (whom Bill had assumed to 
be the Consul with whom he had had correspondence) finally put an 
end to the Comedy of Errors, we got on very well, and met the Consul, 
Mr. Clarence Macy, and had a discussion of the camel situation which 
led nowhere* 
We may have been disappointed at finding that elephants 
did not roam the streets of Bangkok. Karachi made up for it by 
the number of camels that stalk, high-headedly through the streets. 
Here, unlike any other place in the world, camels are used as 
draft animals, and pull rubber-wheeled carts through the town. 
We saw one caravan, of a dozen camels lorded with sacks, and 
many camels with enormous loads of hay on their backs, but the 
common method of transportation is these wooden carts, with 
automobile tires on the wheels, drawn by a camel. The beasts 
are unusually tall, and would make stunning Zoo animals, but 
there is so much surrah in the district that the veterinarian 
could not give us a certificate to take one outi Bands of bells 
around their knees add to the Oriental atmosphere of Karachi. 
Bombay is a. mid-Victorian city. Karachi is like 
picture-book India, with low, flat-roofed houses, some of them 
built of adobe. The city is completely isolated. Desert hems 
in three sides of it, and even encroaches on the town, as we 
went through sections that were nothing bit sand and a scrubby 
mesquite-like growth. The sea makes the fourth boundary, and it 
is 700 miles to the next city. 
We went out to the Zoo, but there was little there that 
we wanted. A pair of Indian badgers appealed to Bill, but the 
director, who is a horticulturist, wanted Rupees 500 for the pair, 
which was simply silly, and we will have to live without Indian 
badgers. 
We had dinner on the ship. The agent came aboard, and Bill 
appealed to him for police protection for our animals. Natives cornea" 
aboard in droves to look at our floating Zoo, end while they are not 
malicious, they insist on poking their faces up against the bars, 
which is frightening to the animals, and dangerous for the natives. 
When Bill made the rounds after dinner, he was delighted to find 
two crimson-be-turbaned Afghans with gleaming badges keeping all 
sight-seers at a safe distance. When Jennier and Davis came aboard 
about eleven, they had some difficulty persuading the guard that 
it was quite all right for them to look over the stock. 
August 24 - 
Nazirmohamed met us again, bright and early, and insisted 
on acting as guide for us, although he bores me to death. He talks 
too much, showing his betel stained teeth, spreads a continual 
grin over his pock-marked face, and constantly protests his superb 
honesty, and begs us to recommend him to animal dealers in the 
States. He brought us three pythons, two cobras - at 12 ruppees 
each, and accompanied by the statement that they were "fixed", that 
all available cobras indeed had thejr fangs drawn; some rock parre- 
keets, a hundred avadavits (small, strawberry-like finches), and 
three of the common Karachi crows, handsome, glossy black animals 
with grey necks. 
