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C. Koford
40
Journal
18 March 1962
Dacca, Pakistan.
He offered to introduce me to other monkey dealers in Dacca.
He said Mr. Bowlin, commerce officer at U.S. Embassy, knew
about his company. Not long ago M. in New York a week, &
he expects to go again in April. He said he could supply
certain sex-age from certain locality, & had done this for
some people (Dr. Warren?). He also sells to Henry Trefflich,
228 Fulton St., New York 7. The other Dacca dealers, who
have no farm as yet, are: Mr Hafizallah, Mahi Corp., 125 in
Ah sanullah Rd. (Ah sanmanzu), Dacca 1. Teleph. 3030. To Davis
(Mujibullah)
he sends about 500/mo. At maximum he has available $8000 per month.
He also confided that the jet freight rate for 500 kg. + over
(300 monkeys) was much less than the BOAC rate from India.
In part due to 20% surcharge in India for animal shipments!
He knew Rei & Patterson companies. He said that Rei had tried to
discredit Pakistan monkeys by personal talks. At another time it
was published that Pakistan monkeys had malaria (they had ridden
with monkeys from Kuala Lumpur), but Warren & other had found
little more later. M. taken blood slides monthly for Dr. Warren.
He said he has also tried to infect monkeys with malaria from
mosquitoes. He said he has hybridized Macacus rhesus with
stump-tail without great difficulty (kept or away from 9 for a time),
and the hybrid had stump-tail face but rhesus tail. He claimed
little to have had no difficulties in jet shipments, & could reach
San Francisco in 20 hours, N.Y. in 24 hours. He had also had
bad experiences with Gleeds, including one where D. had told him
to ship too few cages, & another where D. claimed a large portion
dead and checkups with PAA and SPCA gave different reports.