BANKERS C/O BARCLAYS BANK 
BARCLAYS 3ANK, NAIROBI JOHN SEAGO BOX 30011, NAIROBI 
BARCLAYS, BANK, NORWICH KENYA 
: PHONE KABETE 33530 
CABLES C/O BARCLADOM, 
CHARTERED BANK, NEW YORK 
E. A. MANAGER:- 
D. ANTHONY PARKINSON 
NAIROBI 
26th February 1969 
Dr. T.H. Reed 
Director ° 
National Zoological Park 
Washington 9 D.C 
U.S.A 
Dear Ted: 
Thank you very much for sending the information about 
the nets which Tony and I found very interesting. 
You might like to see the enclosed which I received 
(through the mail the other day. It supports the point you 
/ made that the dealer section of the animal business does 
not cooperate with the zoos when it comes to protecting an 
endangered species. 
Tony is away up the mountain. They have extended their 
range of activities and now cover a much wider area, He 
is also receiving a lot of cooperation from local people 
who have passed on to him much useful information. I think 
it is just a question of any day now, when we shall hear 
that there is a bongo = or more than one - in the trap. 
_dohn King is soldiering a way on the Capture Committee 
trying to tidy up this business here on the lines that he 
discussed with you, and we are told that Ken Stewart hasn't 
functioned since last October and will not be allowed to 
function until his pens have been entirely rebuilt and have 
been passed by the Game Department. Stewart has explored 
the possibilities of working in Zambia and Botswana but has 
returned here so one can only conclude that he did not get 
what he wanted in the other places, | 
Apropos of the animals offered by Van Den Brink, I have 
recently learned he makes his purchases from a chap called 
Tom Mann who some years ago fell foul of the Game Department 
here and therefore had to move, and who operates in Uganda, 
It seems that he runs a ramshackle sort of a camp supervised 
by a Somali, who often has not sufficient funds to buy the 
necessary foods for the animals. The camp labour has not 
been paid for several months and stays because food is pro- 
vided which is otherwise difficult to obtain owing to the 
severe unemployment situation, The young man who gave me 
this information is called Richard White (his father is a 
age, eee 
