Box 1

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Includes: listings of waterfalls seen, walkups, game meat, tame or captive animals, kills, out of the ordinary happenings, and animals seen outside parks

Scope and Contents 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 LondonPeople: Ginny...

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Topics: weather, meals, latitude and longitude positions during voyage, fish seen, and an entry about the S.S. R.E. Wilson's cargo

Locations: Carteret, NJ; Texas City, TX; and Galveston, TX

Special events: voyage on S.S. R.E. Wilson (a chemical carrier), fire and boat drill (twice), and a heavy thunderstorm

Additional material: a Union Carbide Corporation contract

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Topics: weather, meals, research

Locations: Manhattan, Southampton, London, and Cambridge

People: Dr. Northcott, Dr. Schapera, Lady Kenyes, and Prof. Dover Wilson

Special events: voyage to England on the Queen Mary, visit to British Museum, visits to libraries to do research, and an accidental chimney fire

Scope and Contents Topics: weather, meals, and animal sightings (hippos, buffalo, elephants, waterbucks, crocodiles, warthogs, impalas, rhinos, giraffes, gazelles, zebras, ostriches, jackals, lions, cheetahs, hyenas, wildebeest, leopards, etc.) Locations: London, Cairo, Khartoum, Kampala, Kabale, Mbarabara, Isilo, Tanganyika, Kenya, Uganda, Sambura, Amboseli, Serengeti, Mombasa, and LondonPeople: Major Robin Campbell (of Uganda) and Sir Stanley UrwinSpeical events: trip to East...

Scope and Contents Topics: weather, meals, animal sightings (zebras, wildebeest, impalas, elephants, waterbucks, baboons, monkeys, warthogs, lions, buffalo, vultures, rhinos, ostriches, giraffes, crocodiles, etc.), and miningLocations: London, Gorongoza, Salisbury, McIlwaine, Umtali, Inyanga, Vumba, Zimbabwe, Inyati, Strokestown, Matopos, Wankie, Pandamatenga, Livingstone, Kafue, Lusaka, Luangwa, Athens, and SwitzerlandPeople: Sir Robert Tredgold and Richard Brown (head of history...

Scope and Contents Topics: meals, animal sightings (wildebeest, ostriches, jackals, camels, meerkats, zebras, giraffes, rhinos, elephants, monkeys, cheetahs, warthogs, impalas, snakes, etc.), and fishingLocations: Kuruman, Johannesburg, Pretoria, Upington, Augrabies, Etosha Pan, Durban, Swaziland, Transvaal, Mala Mala, Bulawayo, Wankie, Chobe, and Amsterdam People: Romaine Tabler (wife), J.S. Moffat, and D.W. Krynauw (chief archivist)Special events: trip to South Africa...