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Talking of other projects, I believe that the 
Sooiety are interested in finanoing an expedition being | Ryitee | 
planned by the Washington Zoo to try to capture Bongo - 
one of Africa's rarest and most beautiful antelopes. 
Ten years ago I had the only Bongo in captivity (now in the 
Cleveland Zoo) and since then I have watched several 
expeditions try to catch more and fail. So, (as I have so 
much time to spare these days!) I organised a small group 
of men in January and sent them off into the mountains. 
Last month I became the owner of the fourth bongo in the 
world in captivity, and Joan and I spent most of April 
taming the animal down in her pen up in the mountains. ee 
If the Society are indeed interested in bongo, I have a good . ba 
selection of pictures of the whole operation including the eee | 
two day job of carrying her out of the bamboo forest in a 
box on the shoulders of twenty porters. Could you please 
' get this information to the right ears? I can never work 2 ant 
out whose ears are interested in what news! I enclose a - bad 
shot for your interest - hyenas had been worrying her at a 
night so I moved in with her. 
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Regarding an assistant; I obviously need someone 
with a fair amount of experience — I do not want to be | 
running a school for bush photographers. This brings the 
selection down to just a few men and I will probably use | 
Simon Trevor. He is on a month's assignment for me at | pan 
the moment and has worked well for me in the past. | a Pe 
Regarding financial arrangements, & 250 a month would be a ) py 
very fair salary. You pay about & 350 for a lecture film ish: 
cameraman so I imagine that this would be O.K. with you. : 
If so please write stating that this is your rate for 
assistant cameramen; plus mileage and expenses of course, 
both of which I will see are kept to a minimum. 
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| : It could be that towards the end of 1969, when I will be 
; | looking for specific pieces of behaviour, I could put an 
assistant to good use but I doubt that I will need one even 
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