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deck, however, I found poor Jennler in despair, because opening up 
number 5, on which his deck cargo is stored, left him no place to 
clean and water the cages, and he was walking across the steel 
beams, doing a reg lar tight rope act, in order to reach Harry, 
the cassowary, the kangaroos, and several others in that row. 
The day is warn] and bright, and we are all warned to wear 
helmets on deck. One of the junior engineers is in bed with 
sunstroke which he got on board ship. There is a nice little 
breeze, but the Gulf of Men, which we are now in, is calm and 
sparkling ly blue. 
About nine o 1 clock at night we passed Aden - a row of 
lights between two light-houses, with the outline of mountains 
against the starry sky. As we were watching the distant town, 
a gorgeous meteor cut across the sky, leaving a path of fire 
that lasted for seconds* Someone on shore seemed to be trying to 
send us a signal, but n body aboard got it. Just one of those 
things to pique one ! s curiosity - flashes in some code which 
nobody could read. Well, if it were anything really impor- 
tant I dare say we would have been wirelessed. 
August ZO - 
The big orang is ill, as is also Roemah Sakit. One of the 
Medan gibbons is dead. The baby I have taken up to our room 
is still living on air. The very thought of food makes him 
scornful, and forcing milk down him is a doubtful remedy. 
We are really in the Red Sea now, and it is even hotter 
than I had been led to believe. Down in Number 6, peeling 
bananas and chopping apples, the temperature was simply vile. 
Sweat poured into my eyes, dripped of my elbows, and ran down 
my knees. 
The sea is beautiful, blue and calm, with porpoises to be 
seen accasionally, and many schools of fish breaking the water 
and disclosing their presence to the flocks of gulls who 
swoop down upon them. 
We passed Mocha this morning - the nearest, says Bill, that 
we have been to r good cup of coffee for months. 
It definitely is dysentery^ and probably amoebic, that 
has seized the ship. Seven of the officers have it now. And 
we are forty-eight hours from a doctor. 
