March 8 - 
We anchored for several hours last night so that we would 
not reach Freetown before daylight* We were in the harbor, and 
anchored about half a mile off shore when I woke up, but by the 
time all the officials had visited us, and we had permission to 
go ashore the morning was half gone, and we decided to wait un- 
til after lunch* 
Mr. Philip (?) Carroll came on board looking for Bill* He 
is an animal collector who has worked for Trefflich and Ruhe, and 
wanted to sell us some stuff* We went ashore with him after 
lunch, and he took us in his car out to his place, about seven 
miles, where he had 22 chimpanzees, and a number of mona monkeys, 
grey-cheeked mangabeys, military monkeys, green monkeys, one 
bush pig, crowned cranes, a turacou, and a couple of pythons. The 
chimps were grand, all of them young except one big female with 
a baby, and most of them tame* 
Upon coming back to town we did a bit of shopping, at P.Z.'s, 
and a bit of drinking at the City Hotel and the Grand Hotel. The 
harbour has a number of warships in, and both hotels were full of 
naval officers, very trim in white helmets, singlets and shorts. 
Carrol 
jjEtarfrlfrx sent for a native who had a small harnessed antelope. 
He brought it up on the verandah of the City Hotel, with a collar 
and rope, and Bill bought it for ten shillings. It fts a sweet little 
thing, big-eared, big-eyed, with the tiniest little black feet* I 
hope it lives, but it seems so tiny and fragile, and it will have 
to do so much traveling before we get it home* Norris brought it on 
board in his arms, and it soon made a place for itself under his 
bunk* 
While we were in the City Hotel a strange looking young man 
with a black beard came up and spoke to Carroll, introducing himself 
as Dr. Selden* He came from an Anglican Mission away in the interior 
of Liberia, and had come into Freetown to visit the dentist* He 
joined us for the evening, and he and Carroll regaled us until small 
hoiars of the morning with tales of the West African Coast* We brought 
them out to the sh ip for dinner, and they stayed all night. 
We had our first experience with a black-out. All lights 
had to out at 7.30, leaving onlv the little bed lights which made 
a gloomy light in the cabin. In the dining room, where we sat 
for most of the evening, only one light was turned on and the 
curtains were pulled across the portholes* When we have had so 
much illumination all during the journey, it seemed very strange to 
have to feel one's way along the deck in pitch blackness* 
March 9 - 
Spent the morning in port, in fact did not sail until 
2.30, but none of us went ashore. 
