And the ship docked in Miami, and Mehrtens was waiting with his wife and Bill Chase, and who was a Miami animal dealer. And we drove the two tigers to Bill Chase’s compound in Miami, which was like this massive zoo. And we loaded up a truck with, and I’ll have to try to remember. We had the two tigers, we had a pair of Amur leopards, we had a group of hamadryas baboons, we had wallabies, we had African porcupines, a hippopotamus, and other things. Me seeing them all for the first time in my life, and we drove 600 miles back to Columbia. And when I got there, I told him what had happened, and he, that the tigers had been switched. He refused to believe it. And I said, “Well, I’ve got this film being developed at the drugstore, so let’s look.” And clearly in the photographs that I took there were two different animals.
