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MANN:   Yes, they were on deck.  The giraffe crates were nine feet tall.  Oh, they just looked beautiful.  There were two males, two females, and very tame.  We could pat their noses.  The captain, up to that point, had not cared very much about having animals all over his ship.  After the giraffes came aboard, he weakened.  He wouldn't go to bed at night unless he'd been down and said good night to the giraffes.
[Laughter]

Then I think the next thing that happened--that was the big day, of course, when we had the mutiny and everything.  Bill recovered, and by the time we got to Port Said he left the ship.  We went to Cairo and out to the pyramids.  We hired a car for the whole day.  From then on he was all right, and of course, once we got into the Mediterranean the weather was cooler and much better.  During all the time that we were in the Red Sea, we slept out on deck because the cabin was just too hot.  But the night of the mutiny was funny.  I remember Roy and Malcolm came up--their quarters were on the lower deck--and they came up just to sort of pay us a visit and see how Bill was.  They hoped that we didn't know anything about the trouble, and finally said that they didn't think that I ought to sleep on deck that night.  So I said I hadn't planned to because Bill was sick, he was running a fever, and he would have to stay in bed, and I was going to stay with him.  But through the Mediterranean it was fairly calm.  We didn't have any bad weather until we got out into the middle of the Atlantic.  Then a real storm came along.  They put ropes along the deck, you know, to hang on to, so we wouldn't be washed overboard.  The waves were just crashing over the deck.