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However, when we were having our pre- luncheon drink in tne 
running around the deck. 
cavy and put it into a box. As we had two pairs oi cavies, iiiii 
wondered how he was going to tell which were the parents. As e 
squatted on his heels in front of the cages, he suddenly saw a 
second baby in one cage, establishing the maternity of the l emaie. ^ 
He put the first baby in with the second, and we went down to luncn, 
only honing that people would leave them al ne» andlet the mo er 
take care of her babies in peace. An hour later we crosse i 
Equator, and decided to name one of the babies ''Miss Equator - it 
she came alive to Washington. 
In fee night a steward knocked on our door, waking us up. 
"If you please, sir," he said, "one of the officers has sent you 
a message." 
"What is it?" says Bill, half asleep. 
"There is trouble in the rabbit cage, sir," 
"I can’t do anything about it in the middle oi the night 
Bill decided.' "I’ll have a look-see inthe morning. " 
"Sir," said the steward, "I have given you the message. 
In the morning we found that the mother cavy had sat on one 
of her babies, and that only one of the twins was alive However, 
Bill maintained that there was nothing we could do about it, an 
that the remaining one had a much better chance for i 
with his mother than if taken out and raised on a bottle. 
June 22 - Trinidad 
We spent a hot, muggy day ashore, having got up at six o’clock 
I* awHsw +.n f>are> f nr nur charges and be able to leave the ship at 
