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HENSON: How did the animals react to the intense heat and then the storm? Did 
        any of them seem upset?

MANN:   The giraffes had enough sense to lie down. They didn't break necks or
        legs, which they might very easily have done. There was just barely room for them to lie down, you know, those shipping crates are made to fit, so that the animals can't move around very much or turn around. But there was just enough room for them to lie down. That's what they did, and they were all right.
     The only thing I remember about the trip by sea was the bananas. Let's see, the last chance we had to buy bananas was in Port Said, after that we didn't stop again until we got to Halifax. So we practically ran out of bananas before we got to Halifax, and radioed ashore to send some out with the pilot. One of the newspaper men that we knew, a man from Washington, had been sent up to Halifax to write the story of our landing. The pilot wasn't going to bring these newspaper men out to the ship with him, but one of them [William] Bill Shippen, had this great big bunch of bananas, and said it was an absolute emergency--he had to get the bananas out to the ship, so he did. We stopped in Halifax, Boston, New York. I think I told you about unloading the giraffes, didn't I? 

HENSON: Right, that Mr. Jennier walked them in. 

MANN:   Yes, he had to take them out to the crates and lead them into their
        stalls.