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AUG 4 1969 
S0th July 1960 
Dr. Theodore H. Reed | RECEIVED 
Director 
National Zoological Park 
Washington D.C. 
Dear Ted: 
Very sorry that we have not written before but we have 
been rather pre-occupied in one way and another. 
I don't know whether John did ever give you the details 
when we brought the Bongo out from the trap. We first of all 
cleared a track of some ten feet wide right through to the 
camp and on the day that we carried him down employed just 
over twenty men so that they could carry in shifts. Despite 
the weight everything went extremely well and we had him on to 
the Land Rover at Kigai within three and a half hours of 
leaving camp and back here in Nairobi by four o'clock that 
afternoon. I had never realised until we had to count that 
from that lower camp to the car there are six little streams 
to cross!! 
We did notice when we got the bongo down here that he had 
rubbed himself just above the tail and one or two small rubs 
on his legs, but these we watched and they all dried up with 
no trouble at all and are completely healed, and the hair is 
beginning to grow back. He has put on a lot of condition 
since arriving in Nairobi, is now on lucerne hay, cabbage, 
carrots and Lactogen milk. 
What we have noticed is that he is going through exactly 
the same stage as the bongo that we held for Alan Root and that 
is about two weeks after being here in Nairobi he started to 
moult quite considerably and looks a little scruffy. But 
already there are signs of the hair beginning to grow so l 
reckon in about five weeks time he should be in good order, 
I have quite a lot of photographs, in both Ektachrome and 
Kodacolor. Despite the day we carried him out being cloudy and 
rainy they have come out surprisingly well. As there are a lot 
of them what would you like to do? - hold them until you 
come here and you can select what you think would be required, 
or if you wish I could send them all over. 
pa ue 
JOHN SEAGO D. ANTHONY PARKINSON 
