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black leopard--reached through the cage and clawed his leg, not seriously, but any kind of scratch in the tropics can be dangerous.  Bill disinfected that and bound it up for him.  We had to sign a receipt for the bales of hay, and they all had to be counted.  They were strewn all over the deck; we didn't know what we were going to do with them.  The boys were stripped to the waist, but wearing sun helmets.
  Then bill and I were working down in the hold, and he began to feel kind of ill, so he came up and went to bed.  When I came up at lunchtime he was running quite a high fever and we were alarmed.  The captain sent ashore for a doctor, who came and said that it was heat stroke, not sun stroke but heat stroke.  This was still morning.  He said the temperature ashore right then in Port Sudan was 117°.  So Bill went to bed and the doctor prescribed sweet spirits of nitre for him.
  We tried to take care of the animals all afternoon, but we were having trouble with visitors.  There was a German ship tied up near us with a Chinese crew.  They gave all their crew shore leave.  Instead of going ashore, they all came over to visit our Chinese crew.  We couldn't keep them away from the animals.  They were poking their faces right up against the black leopard cage and that sort of thing.  It was a hectic afternoon, but finally we appealed to a couple of the officers to get them off the ship, and they did.  By that time our crew, our Chinese boys, were all upset because they had not been allowed shore leave.  Whether they had managed to get some liquor of their own, or whether the crewmen from the other ship had brought it, I don't know.  But by evening they were all pretty drunk and very quarrelsome.  They swarmed up on the