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DIRECTOR’S OFFICE - NZP c/o Barclays Bank 
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FEB & 1959 Nairobi 
Kenya 
RECEIVED 
Slst January 1969 
Dr. T.H. Reed 
Director 
National Zoological Park 
Washington 9 D.C 
Dear Ted: 
Enclesed is a list of animals which I believe is a’ 
complete true record of the animals you have on order 
with us. Enclosed also is the first list that you gave 
us in your own handwriting. Now that we are in the New 
Year I am making a start on the capture. 
We have built two more Bongo traps now that we have 
been able to study the movements of the Bongo and so have 
a fair idea as to where they are. Whilst they have been 
right up to the traps, as yet they still refuse to go in 
and I can now see that we may have to give them a little bit 
of a push. The new traps have been built with this in view. 
You will be interested to hear hew many animals have 
Deen caught in the traps so far and I enclose a list of 
the dates they were released, 
December was fairly dry and all the Bongo apparently 
moved up the mountain and the same for the most part of 
January, but these last few days it has been raining hard 
and the Bonge have moved down again near the traps, so we 
are now waiting fer the right opportunity to arise so that 
we can attempt to pusn them in. 
It certainly is a leng job but we had expected it to 
be so. Looking back through my diary I see that we only 
completed the first pen on the 16th October so it is not 
that long really. During December and early January there 
were an exceptional number of honey hunters up the mountain 
and maybe they had some effect on the Bongo. Anyway, Ted, 
I can assure you we will not give up until we have caught, 
hewever long it might take. You have been our most Loyal 
supporter all these years and it has become much more than 
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