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June 26 - ITew York 
The days since Trinidad were hot and sticky «* until yesterday 9 
whe n , havl ng packed all our warm clothes we found the night air 
decidedly cool* Breaking all records for the line* the S.S. 
Brazil actually docked ahead of time, and we were tied up before 
eight o’clock. 
Fyf e came to meet us, and to take the animals oil our hands, 
but found that we did not hare proper credentials for the llamas 
and guanacos . We spent all morning on the pier, and did not ge ^ 
away until two o’clock, but by that time wehad some assurance that 
the patient beasts we had worked with for so many days were not to 
be hit in the head and thrown overboard. 
We have had unusually good luck with, our traveling menagerie. 
Pill says ft is a smaller percentage of lose then he has ever seen 
before . llore than 2t>0 animals are about to go to fc e zoo, and not 
more than a half dozen - and those small, del i cate birds or frogs - 
died on the way up. Oh, yes, there was one large loss, and that 
was Jones’ capybara, which was buried at sea two nights ago* And 
some of the snakes in the big cr^te from But an tan were evidently 
dead when they came on board, for they very soon began to smell 
and one by one were pitched over the side. On the whole, however, 
we had remarkable luck . Holmberg had told, us of so many blunge, 
such as oven birds and black necked swans and the speckled perdis, 
that they did not live well in captivity, and that if want e to 
get home with any at all he had better collect 1 forge groups o 
them. Of 24 perdis that left B.A., 24 go into the Zoo tomorrow, 
and that is a good record! 
