Journal 1 , 1957

Topics: weather, latitude and longitude positions during voyage, meals, research, animal sightings (hippos, ostriches, giraffes, crocodiles, warthogs, zebras, buffalo, wildebeest, etc.), local reviews about Tabler and his wife, hunting, and Tabler’s book "The Far Interior"

Locations: Cape Town, Port Elizabeth, Kimberly, Bloemfontein, Johannesburg, Durban, Maritzburg, Pretoria, Lydenburg, Bulawayo, Wankie, Salisbury, Umtali, Stapleford, Inyanga, and London

People: Ginny Tabler (wife, referred to as “G.” throughout), R.F. Kennedy, Dr. D.R. Masson, Dr. C.F.J. Muller, Dr. Roger Summers, Thomas Baines, Frederick Hugh Barber, W.F. Webb, Hugh Barber, J.S. Moffat, James Dawson, Willie Hartley, Sir Robert Tredgold (acting governor-general of Rhodesia), and Lady Tredgold

Special events: trip to South Africa to see locations about which Tabler wrote and to do more research, visits to libraries and museums, visited Tabler’s Music Store in Durban (founded by Adolf Hermann Tabler of Heilbron, Germany), accidents, unfortunate events, sickness, and a small grass fire

Additional material: cartoon drawings, newspaper clippings, dried leaf specimens, a map and visitor guide of Wankie Game Reserve, an engagement schedule for Government House in Salisbury, a partial list of photographs, and supplementary journal notes