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Journal
9 August 1965.
Delhi, U.P., India
lower ranking men, some slightly deformed (but 1 good 23
lb. old + 2 good subad. old). Two "golden" ff 2-3 yrs. old in
cages. (One cage about 25 bonnet monkeys, 6-8 lbs. - tails
long & straight.) The Indian who showed me around said
that their own men merely brought the monkeys & had nothing
to do with the actual capture. I took plane to Bombay.
10 August 1965. In Bombay talked briefly with M. S.
Rai about monkey shipping business. He showed little
enthusiasm + was planning to go to Europe this winter for
a long stay. He had plans for movie of monkey capture &
handling & shipping. I departed at 10:30 a.m. in plane on FAA route
flw via Karachi, Aden, to Nairobi. Aden area a rocky
desert. Cloudy over Africa - did not see the big mountains.
11-13 August 1965.
Nairobi, Kenya.
Talked with D.S.B. Leakey at Corydon Museum on 11. On 12 he
took me to visit Tigrini, where Cynthia Booth (+ husband Bruce)
now reside + have 100+ monkeys in cages. They also had stated
collector skins & skeletons. Leakey seemed most interested in
taxonomy now, repod. & behavior later. Cynthia monomach +
tollesive, but seemed to know her African monkeys. She
was to go to Zanzibar in Sept. to review Colobus badius
in a small forest there. Caged animals seemed in fine health
& seemed to be her main interest. 2 or + black & white colobs
of 2 forms in cages. An adjacent road being acquired to expand
facilities. A newly arrived girl from Weler was to study bones,
the apparently a beginner in this field. Leakey continued to