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touch with him to find out what the trouble was, and the trouble was that the government had forbidden him to ship animals because it was monsoon season, and he thought they would not survive the trip.  Well, here we were with nine hundred other animals, it was kind of a pessimistic view to take.  But we did very well until we got to the Red Sea, and there the heat was just unbelievable, especially down in the holds.  We'd spend hours just pouring cold water over the animals, trying to cool them off.  They just went limp.  One bear--of course, a Himalayan bear was kind of out of place in that hold--but Harold Coolidge had given us these two bear cubs, and we'd kept them in camp all the time, they were pets.  One of the bears went down and two or three of the monkeys.  I think one monkey died, but we managed to pull most of them through.
  Then we got into Port Sudan.  Bill [William M. Mann] had written ahead; he'd been in touch with the game department of Sudan, who had acquired some animals for us, promised us quite a lot of things--we didn't know just what we'd get.  So the minute we docked in Port Sudan, Bill went ashore and came back absolutely delighted.  There were four beautiful young giraffes, two cape buffalos, and two small shoebill storks.  He had made arrangements to have them loaded on board, and he had found a ship's chandler who would sell us, I forget how many, crates of bananas.  I guess the game department had arranged for the hay.  We had, I think, twenty-two bales of hay, green clover hay, that had come on board.  In the morning--of course, working on deck was just terrifically hot, and I guess it was worse down in the hold--but we had to feed the animals.  The first thing that happened was that Roy Jennier got snagged by a