February 15, 1968 
Mr. John Seago 
c/o Barclay's Bank 
Box 30011 
Nairobi, Kenya 
Dear John and Tony: 
You are probably wondering, now that February 12th has passed, what 
happened tc the bongo mo ey the answer, in our bureaucratic language, 
is that it has been delay ed. We put the grant in, on the proper application 
papers of the National Geographic Society, and thought we made a pretty 
good presentation. However, Dr, Carmichael did not present it because 
he ose it needed beefing up in financial estimates. He alse zp that the 
tenor of the meeting was unfavorable, and he delayed it until next mg 
We are now re-doing the application, and have to fake up a sudget < 
this $20,060. 
First off, if we start at the back end of it, there are “0 days of 
quarantine. Figuring $10 a day 264 animal, 90 days for three animals 
would cost $2700. We allow $100 for Wanepcrtation down here. Air 
transport for animals and attendant would come to about $3206. Helicopter 
time at $125 an hour, if you are going to be in camp for two months and 
need te TP S flo wn in once a week, would come to about $4000. We are 
pyle. 25 $1500 for skylifting the animals out; $3000 for laborers, camp 
nen, trackers and trappers; and $6600 for camp maintenance, trucks, 
Sesto isas, and professional services. 
This is the budget that we have fixed up. If you have any changes or 
adjustments to make, please let me know. There will be no apecial equip- 
ment bought, but we will have to secure the use of the helicopter and 
the plane to fly the animals out. 
Since the National Geographic is trying to act scientific, you will see 
by the attached application that I have put in a lot of scientific glop, iach 
as noting the animal's habits, etc., which I am assuming is the thing you 
normally do when you are on the track of some elusive animal. We will 
have to sit down with a tape recorder and talk all this out. If droppings 
are found in the wild, they should be collected and preserved and later 
analyzed for learning about types of food. When the animals are caught, 
we would like to bleed them for hematological studies and examine them 
for parasites. Then when the animals come to the National Zoo we will 
have to keep them gentle, run blood tests, observe estrus cycles , and 
we hope during pregnancy to get urine samples to determine the hormone 
output. 
