A Zoo in My Luggage

Acknowledgements

Britain

All the members of the expedition are very grateful to the following manufacturers who supported them in a most generous way:

Adhesive Tapes Ltd: Sellotape

S. Allcock & Co. Ltd: Fishing lines

Ashton Brothers & Co. Ltd: Bedding

Black & Decker Ltd: Drill

Bovril Ltd: Food

Brand & Co. Ltd: Food

British Bata Shoe Co.: Baseball boots

British Berkefeld Filters Ltd: Filters

British Nylon Spinners Ltd: Clothing

Cerebos Ltd: Food

Coleman Quick Lite Co. Ltd: Lighting and heating

Joseph Cookson Ltd: Rope

Cussons Sons & Co.: Toilet goods

W. M. Delf (L’pool) Ltd: Disinfectant

Electrical Equipment Co.: Generator

Ever-Ready Co. (GB) Ltd: Batteries

Joseph Farrow & Co. Ltd: Food

Granta Works: Folding canoe

Horlicks Ltd: Food

Hugon & Co. Ltd: Food

Jeyes-Ibco Sales Ltd: Disinfectant

Percy Jones (Twinlock) Ltd.: Files

G. B. Kalee Ltd: Ciné equipment

Kimberly-Clark Ltd: Tissues

Latex Upholstery Ltd: Foam rubber

Linen Thread Company Ltd: Special line

Lustraphone Ltd: Microphone

Marmite Ltd: Food

William Marples & Sons Ltd: Tools

Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Co. Ltd: Tapes

Don S. Momand Ltd: Alka-Seltzer

The Nestlé Company Ltd: Food

Olympia Ltd: Typewriter

Oxo Ltd: Food

Pifco Ltd: Lighting

Polarisers (UK) Ltd: Sun-glasses

Prestige Group Ltd: Cooking equipment

Rael-Brook Ltd: Clothing

Reckitt & Colman Ltd: Medical supplies

Revlon: Toilet goods

Ross Ensign Ltd: Binoculars

Geo. Salter & Co. Ltd: Scales

Scott & Turner: Vitamin food

Selfset Ltd: Traps

The Sheffield Twist Drill & Steel Co. Ltd: Drills

Smith & Nephew Ltd: Medical supplies

Smiths Clocks and Watches Ltd: Watches

Spear & Jackson Ltd: Spades

Spong & Co. Ltd: Mincers

Stanley Works (GB) Ltd: Tools

Tate & Lyle Ltd: Food

Templeton Patents Ltd: Dried foods

Joseph Tetley & Co. Ltd: Tea

Tilley Lamp Co. Ltd: Lamps and heaters

United Yeast Co. Ltd: Yeast

Venesta Ltd: Plymax board

Venner Accumulators Ltd: Batteries for recorder

Vitamins Ltd: Bemax

Windolite Ltd: Windolite

Yeo Bros. Paul Ltd: Tent

S. Young & Sons (Misterton) Ltd: Animal equipment

Manufacturers whose products were of tremendous value and without which the expedition would have been seriously hampered were:

Allen & Hanburys: Entavet

Barnards Ltd: Wire netting

B.D.H.: Medical supplies

British Nylon Spinners Ltd, Pontypool: Tarpaulins, etc.

Dexion Ltd: Dexion

Glaxo Labs Ltd: Animal food

Greengate & Irwell Rubber Co. Ltd: Nylon tarpaulins

Joseph Gundry & Co. Ltd: Special nets

Halex Ltd: Plastic goods

Kenneth G. Hayes Ltd: Finch nest baskets

Hounsfield Ltd: Camp-beds

Imperial Chemical (Pharmaceuticals) Ltd: Medical supplies

The Oppenheimer Casing Co. (UK) Ltd: Polythene bags

Parke-Davis & Co. Ltd: Medical supplies

William Smith (Poplar) Ltd: Tarpaulins, tent, etc.

Thomas’s Ltd: Cages and special equipment

J. H. Thompson (Cutlery) Ltd: Cutlery

Transatlantic Plastics Ltd: Polythene bags

Varley Dry Accumulators Ltd: for ciné camera

Wire-Bands Ltd: Banding machine

LONDON: Mr Miles, of Grindlay’s Bank Shipping Department, without whose efforts no members of the expedition would ever have arrived in the Cameroons.

Cameroons:

VICTORIA: Mr Eric Saward, Acting Manager, U.A.C., and his wife, Sheila, who generously welcomed us to the Cameroons.

Mr MacCarney, Manager, U.A.C., who went out of his way to help us.

Mr Walker, of Elders and Fyffes Ltd, who saw that all food supplies for the animals were safely put upon the ship.

Mr Dudding, Assistant Commissioner, for all his help in arranging all our permits to catch animals.

Mr Austin, of the Agricultural Co-operative, who most kindly sent a large truck all the way up from the coast to Bafut to ensure that both we and our animals caught the ship on time.

KUMBA: Dr William Crewe, who so lavishly entertained both us and our animal cargo on our way down to the coast.

Mr Gordon, Manager, U.A.C., who supplied us with a four-wheel-drive Bedford truck to take our animals down to the coast.

MAMFE: Mr John Henderson, Manager, U.A.C., for whom our gratitude knows no bounds.

Mr John Topham, who invited both us and our animals to invade his house at the dead of night and did everything he could to assist us. He also provided a truck to take the animals down to the coast.

Mr John Thrupp, District Officer of the Mamfe Division, who bore our complaints and protests with fortitude.

Mr Martin Davis, Forestry Officer, who helped us in every way and brought us Tavy, our second black-footed mongoose.

BEMENDA: Dr Paul Gebauer, of the Cameroons Baptist Mission, who, as on previous expeditions, suffered much at our hands yet always welcomed us.

Mr Brandt, Manager, U.A.C., and his wife Rona, who did everything they could to make our stay in Bemenda enjoyable.

Mr Shadock, A.D.O., who helped us in many ways to smooth our departure.

Mr Macfarlane, Veterinary Officer of the Cameroons, who gave us invaluable assistance with our animal charges.

Mr Stan Marriot, of the Agricultural Department, who recharged our camera batteries and repaired our Land-Rover on countless occasions.

Mr Dennison, Manager, U.A.C., who helped us in any way he could.

TIKO: Mr Bowerman, of C.D.C., who made all arrangements for us to stay in the Rest House prior to our sailing.

Our thanks also to the Captain, officers and men of the M.V. Nicoya, and in particular to Mr Terrance Huxtable, the Chief Steward, who bore with us and our animals with great fortitude and understanding.

Last of all we would like to thank our good friend, the Fon of Bafut, for giving us ‘a happy time’.