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Whe n we are in port there is no '"breeze to "blow away 
the smell of the animals* and the barnyard odor creeps down 
corridors* and permeates everything in our stayeroom. Bill 
has solved the water problem beautifully (he thinks ; by attaching 
a hose to our bathroom faucet , running the hose along our floor 
and out the porthole onto the animals* decx» It is fine for 
the animals , but makes just one more inroad on the privacy 
one usually expects in one’s own bedroom. 
Dare r on brought his collection aboard, or at least all that 
Bill would take of it - a tapir, opossum, eyra, ducks, eurassows 
and a lizard. The 7 ,oo sent down a tapir, two king vultures 
* ■ - - • -*«. We didn’t want any more 'stuff, "but there 
these. We sailed at four- thirty, with 
harbor which was all we saw 03- 
ana a xxzaru. 
and twelve lizards. # ^ 
^ ■u-.-o o -..t of talcing these. We sailed at four- thirty, wit 
look at tne xamous harbor which was all we saw ox 
. There was still land in sight when the sun went 
W B*i3 no vr 
a lingering 
Rio tins time 
down. 
June 15 - At Sea 
No news, except that one tapir is not eating very well, and 
has skinned his nose ; neither capybara eats? and a nutria 
escaped in the night. Bill went out sleepily in his night smrt 
caught it, and I heard him say to the sailors "Pardon my 
evening clothes, boys." 
June 16 - At Sea 
The nutrias, having found their way out of the cage, keep 
popping out at intervals. One was out at two this morning, and 
again at seven. 
The passengers, when they a re not complaining about the 
animals, co-s tr v*sit them, and feed them, and get m the 
way of us working men and women, and ask dumb questions. is it 
true llamas spit?" "Well, is it harmful ?" (meaning the spit j 
"Isn't it cute!" "Hear the little birds singing to me. ie 
that a rabbit?" And so on. 
June 17 - At Sea 
A viscacha got out, also a whole box of frogs. Progs 
keep turning up in unlikely places all over the ship now, one 
having been found on the deck above ours, in the passenger s 
quarters. 
June 18 - At Sea 
We crossed the Equator today, but no notice was taken of 
it. Presumably the South American gbing north is not as xeen 
on tomfoolery as the North American going south. 
