September 1 - 
I have never known, or imagined, anything like the heat 
of to-day. Number 6 is a veritable Hades, and all the animals are 
suffering badly. One of Coolidge T s bears had a heft stroke, and 
Jennier rushed him up on the boat deck, where there was no coolness 
but a bit of breeze, and dashed cold water over him in an effort to 
bring him to. To everybody f s great amazement, the little bear 
recovered. A little later, when I was down feeding the gibbons, 
the big black siamang had a similar seiziare. Jennier took him out 
of his cage, and stretched him out on a shady part of the deck. He 
was unconscious and twitching all over. 
All of us were soaked with perspiration all day, whether 
we were working or simply sitting still. 
Bill and I slept out on deck at night, to avoid another 
sleepless night like last night. A little breeze came up, and it 
was not too bad. 
September 2 - 
We pulled into Port Sudan at six in the morning, and a 
few minutes later the stevedores were on deck, and starting to unload 
the cargo we had for this port. Many of them were Fuzzies, and I 
was much entranced with their great mops of curly, woolly hair. Some 
of them have it all standing on end, some of them comb part of it 
down to form corkscrew ringlets around their neck. They all sing , 
and chant and laugh a great deal as they work. 
I went below early, to get the morning f s T ' T ork done so that 
we could go ashore. Davis, Jennier and Gaddi were all prowling 
around with flashlights, looking behind cages and under bales of hay 
in a most mysterious way. Davis was nearly in tears. The pythons 
we bought in Karachi had escaped from their cage in the night, and 
had killed seven birds, including five jungle fowl, a peacock (the 
one we got at Trenganu) , and an owl from Sumatra. Jennier asked me 
how many pythons I thought there had been in the box. I said we had 
ordered fwtrr , but Bill thought there were only three.. t? Well, we 
got ttea?-eje, v he said, ,f so I suppose that is the lot. ft 
The sim a rig that h- d hept stroke yesterday is still alive, 
but he looks pretty miserable and headachy. He ate part of a banana 
and then vomited it. All the small mammals are hanging listlessly 
on their shelves, interested only in copious drinks of water. 
We had ordered four giraffe and two buffalo and two shoe- 
bills from the Sudan Government, and they were waiting for us on 
flat cars right on the wharf. It was a gret sight to see four 
giraffe heads sticking out of crates, and busily eating breakfast 
as they waited their turn to come aboard. 
Jennier got clawed by the black leopard this morning as 
he was feeding it. Fortimately he instinctively jerked in the right 
direction, so he pulled the claw right out before it had a chance to 
rip him badly. 
Bill went ashore to see the giraffe, and then had a session 
