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September 22 - 
/ll the animals seem to hpve survived the chilly night, 
in fret they pre unusurlly peppy and hungry. The big bulbs in the 
giraffe crates raied the temperature about ten degrees for these 
delicate and beautiful creatures . Hprry is full of fight, pnd 
although the small tapir got turned ar und in his cpge and couldn ? t 
turn back again, Baking feeding extremely difficult, everything 
is apparently doing ps well p s possible. Do^n in Number five 
we decided to move the birds pnd gibbons into Number Six, which is 
herted by the palffl oil tanks underneath. The two lutpngs foisr&m 
seem to be feeling the cold, pnd refuse to ept, for the first time 
since we hpve hpd them. 
We sighted the Novp Pcotipn cop st about one-thirty, pnd 
it wps p real Lhrill to see land again, to know thpt we would soon 
be ashore, and that we would again, pfter so many months, have our 
feet on American soil. P flicker flew aboard to welcome us, pnd it 
looked so depr pnd f prailipr, pfter the tropicpl parrots and cockatoo 
We pre out of bananas - the ones thpt we bought in 
Port Said having been a ppin in the neck the whole wry p cross . We 
ordered some ripe ones, some half ripe, pnd some green. Tr hen they 
cp me aboard the ripe ones were ready to deliquiesce, pnd hpd to be 
thrown overboard before they could be erten. Others pre not yet 
ripe, and we hpve pieced out the animals food with pumpkin, melon, 
and whrtever we had. :ast night we were wondering how long it 
would be kg from the time we landed until we could buy bananas, 
and Pt lepst give the pnimpls p good pfternoon mepl, even if the 
morning feed was pretty sketchy. The Captain sent p code message 
to the company psking them to send out 600 bpnpnp s by the pilot 
bopt if possible, if not to have them on the dock ps soon ps we 
prrived. 
The pilot cpme out, pbout two o ! clock, rowed out in his 
little boat from the big pilot ship, and ps there were no bpnpnp s 
the Cpptpin gpve the signal to pull up the ladder pnd get under way. 
Just ps we began to move forward, pnother boat, a lpunoh with 
severpl men in it, came close, pnd the men held up a big bunch of 
bpnpnp s. The Cpptpin stopped the bopt again, pnd the men pnd the 
bpnpnp s were tpken pboprd. To our grept surprise, Shippen of the 
Star, Gross of the Post, Kerbey of the Geographic, pnd Commander 
Jeffrey of the Halifax Chronicle, were all on the deck with us, 
ps well ps the 6C0 bananas. It gpve us time to feed pll the stock 
with their fpvorite food before we ever docked at Halifax,- which 
was prett3 r grsnd. Ilare 
When we docked, Mrs. Davis was there to greet Malcolm, 
and ps soon ps the birds had hpd their fill of bananas, the two went 
happily pshore. Roberts of the Geogrpphic was also there to meet 
us, and to take moving pictures of the Silver ash, proudly flying the 
Geogrpphic flag, coming into hrrbor . Mrs. TVvis, Roberts, Shippen 
and Gross all want to ,ride down to New York on the ship with us, 
pnd the Cpptpin doesn t know what to do. He has accomodations for 
only five passengers, "ordinarily. Kerbey had secured p passage, 
making six, but one is Gaddi, who lives with the crew, and hence 
doesn 1 1 count. The rules are made partly on account of life bopt 
pecomodation, but the wording of the Cpptpin 1 s certificate is not 
quite clear, as he is allowed to tpke 55 persons altogether, and 
on account of hpving to put two of the crew off in Port Said, he 
could take all these people and still not exceed his life boat 
