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reputation for coldness & snobbery.  Many of the men I have met are Indian army officers from Mesopotamia.  One of these is Maj. Whitmore who has spent many years in Burma on the Salween lumbering teak.  He speaks Shan, Burmese & many other tribal languages.  He has also been in Upper Assam where he has shot Tapin.

7  Visited the Zoo again at 5 P.M.  An attendant at the Tiger house stroked some of the tigers & leopards while others flew at him when he approached close to their bars.  The tame ones were like kittens & fond of stroking.  The [[?Kariondo]] cranes danced for us as well as the great gray ones.