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would have enjoyed roughing it for the two nights we spent here, as 
much as in a wilderness area (by pack train) back home. Your youngsters 
would have enjoyed the 3 eighteen months old baby elephants} they were 
fun to watch and occasionally wanted to shave you around, too, just 
as funny as the little elephant in Kipling's "how the elephant got his 
trunk? Here again you'll see what we saw in a movie, -the elephants 
bathing, their grunts of satisfaction on ccmiing out and the elephant 
song by the keeper, on the way back to their feeding pens (for the 
smaller ones) and feeding stations (chained to posts for the larger 
ones, I believe sane 26 elephants in the lot we saw. One of the 
babies was afraid of the water and scarcely got its feet wet, the 
other two tumbled one another around in the water just as any two of 
your youngsters of about same sise would do at any bathing resort. 
Tte elephant song is used to quiet sick elephants idien th^ want 
them to lie down. I can't att«i?)t a rendition here, but we also have 
it on a tape, thanks^to you and what you did to make this very 
wonderful trip possible. Vty conscience bothers me, that I am here and 
you folks are not, especially when I think of the highlight of the 
wlKjle trip,— the day in the Garamba Nat'l Park (30th), not open to 
tourists but for which Dr. van Straelen opened the "gates" for us. 
He la the top man in the Belgian Nat, Park Service and also the 
Director of the Museum in Belgium, He wrote ahead and we were 
expected and received literally with open arms by the director of this 
park (a real wild like area) that i*uns all the way to the Anglo- Sgjjptian 
Sudan border, a huge place of which we were able to see but a amall 
part, in the day we were there. Believe it, or not, we walked within 
