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May 6- [[strikethrough]] 9- [[/strikethrough]] Macassar

We arrived at Macassar late in the afternoon, and Williams and I went up to the Grand Hotel. Bill and Coenraad stayed on board for some time to see what arrangements they could make about storing the animals until our steamer goes.  Through the kindness of the K. P. M. we were allowed to leave them on the Van Imhoff, and Coenraad was allowed to stay on board the entire time it was in port - a most unusual privilege, but one that greatly facilitates taking care of our stock. 

The Grand Hotel is much as it was, except that the food does not seem so bad, after our day in Piroe, and there is a Mode Expositie or fashion show going on. I talked to the two girls who run it. They have come over from Soerabaia hoping to sell some clothes to the women here, but say that business has been bad.  The Macassar women are so used to making their own clothes that it seems extravagant to them to buy ready-mades. Bill was amused to have one of them hail him, ask if he was the "Zoo man", and say that her husband, a tailor, had made clothes for Brown of the Sidney Zoo when he was here. 

May 7 - 

Bill was very thrilled this morning to meet Capt. Diederich of the K. P. M. S. S. Van Cloon, who is something of a naturalist and has picked up a few animals, which he was glad to turn over to Bill at cost.  Among other acquisitions of the day were three anoas and a babirusa, from Capt. Diederich, ^[[& a nice pigeon & a monkey]]
 
Gerds has quantities of birds - parrots and lories in every color of the rainbow, and has also made so e good cages for us. 

May 8 - 

There seem to be complications about taking the anoas out of Macassar. The Resident says Diederich had no right to sell them to us, as they had been confiscated by the police.  Coenraad is buzzing about wildly trying to get matters straightened out. 

In the evening we dined with Mr. F. A. Smits at the Harmonie Club - very pleasant to sit outdoors, have a fairly decent meal, and even a dance. 

May 9 - 

We left the Hotel at nine o'clock, and drove to Bantimoerong, 27 miles inland. There is a very pretty water fall here, and we climbed up an iron stairway that runs along the edge of it.  Above the falls the rocky walls of the gorge [[strikethrough]] run [[/strikethrough]] rise straight up, with interesting-looking caves here and there.  We walked through the stream over very sharp rocks for a couple of hundred yards, and then struck a nice little path that led through cool da p forest.  Bill had a happy morning collecting ants; he found eight more Polyrachus, and one new type of nest - a leaf doubled over and sewed together with silk. In the stream he caught several specimens of a small fish that resembles Hemiramphis. I found a tiny boa on a bush, and we left it there. Smits collected so e plants, and pointed out various types of orchids, including a white ground orchid that was very fragrant. Bill caught a remarkable butterfly - the upper wings clear, the lower ones long and scissor-like. It is blue, black 

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