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sick, and I didn't know how seriously* 
It was a had morning for me, with my mind full of worry 
over Bill, having to face the newspaper men and give interviews 
on the trip, getting our stuff through customs, and making sure 
from time to time that the animals were all right* Prank Lowe 
was there to take charge of the animals, and he did a a*.' ell 
job* The animals began to go ashore as soon as we docked, and 
bv ten o'clock were in American Express trucks and on their way* 
The doctor who took Bill to the hospital last night finally turned 
up with the news that Bill insisted on coming down to the dock 
and he came, in a Marine automobile, with a doctor and an orderly, 
looking too ill for words, yellow as an orange, wobbly, thin, 
and so full of morphine that he hardly knew what he was doing. 
Everything was off the dock when he got there, so we had no 
difficulty in persuading him to go back to the hospital and go to 
bed. He rested all day, while I went to lunch with the Duval 
Browns. Mr. Stubbs called for us and took us to the Norfolk 
boat in the late afternoon, and we put Bill to bed there as soon 
as he reached the cabin* 
The animals survivied the trip much better than Bill did* 
Our only serious loss was one water cheVro tain, whi ch died of an 
abscess in the breast. We lost a couple of young civets, the 
three chameleons, a couple of crocodiles and makes, but our 
other antelopes, the ratel, all the monkeys, the monkey-e g 
eagle, and both hippos 3 eem in fine shape, ffe had a difficil 
time feeding them, as so much of our food supplies spoiled in 
Monrovia and we were u able to replenish them in Dakar. T 
hippos refused rice, cabbage or bananas, eating only sweet ana 
Irish potatoes. Fortunately the ship had enough potatoes to 
augment our supply, and I cut up about four buckets full every 
day for hippos and antelope. The antelope S^J^ery tame, and 
agreeably ate everything we offered them. The bananas ± 
for the entire trip, which is unusual, and showed good, planning 
and budgeting of supplies by Ralph. 
a comfort, always quiet and efficient and optimistic. On 
the enjoyable things of the trip has been t o hear him down on 
his knees in front of a cage talking baby talk to his hippos. 
How he loves the slimy ugly beasts I 
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Dr. Wetmore and Mr. Walker met the boat when we got in 
this morning. and helped Bill off and up to the apartment. «e 
called Garl Eckhardt immediately, and spent the day arranging for 
his hospitalization . It seems too b ad that 
expedition should end with his looking like a Lt him 
West Africa at ktx its worst can do to a man. Ne finally g 
into Naval Hospital, and I hope he will be ®£ly 
until he is rested, and properly diagnosed, and fed P r ®P® J 
and nursed back to health. Of course what he really wants is 
to visit the ZooJ 
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