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Third Oral History Interview
with
Lucile Quarry Mann
July 14, 1977
at her home at 3001 Veazey Terrace, N. W., Washington, D. C.

by Pamela M. Henson
Interviewer

for the Smithsonian Institution Archives

HENSON:  We're going to start with the voyage back to the Sumatran trip.  You had several hundred animals aboard.

MANN:  We had nearly a thousand.  We had 970 or 980, something like that, when we started [879].  We were on a small British freighter, five thousand tons, for fifty days.  We left from Belawan which is the port in Sumatra for Medan, the capital, with all kinds of supplies, tons and tons of bananas, dozens and dozens of eggs, everything we could think of that the animals would need on the ship coming back.  In addition, we were counting on going to the market in every place we stopped.  We were going to make a good many stops on the way home, and that is what we did.  We got ashore in Bombay and Karachi.  In fact, we were in Bombay almost a week because we were having engine trouble and had to do some repairs to the ship.  But we didn't get to see much of the cities; we'd just go to the market and buy.  I remember buying some beautiful