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counting the tiger, the gift of the Sultan of Johore : 

 Two small orang-outangs, twenty monkeys, one sun 

 bear, one honey bear, two civet cats, one bintu- 

 rong, four crown gora pheasants, one black leopard, 

 one clouded leopard, spotted and looking like an 

 ocelot, one female tiger, two samber deer, two 

 mouse deer, in all fourteen cages and three crates. 



At five o'clock the following morning, I was 

 awakened by a hammering at the gate and the call- 

 ing of "Tuan ! Tuan !" Looking out, I saw a native 

 boatman. "What do you want?" I called. 



"Tuan, etu re-mow, pe-char sanken, mon lor- 

 rie" (Sir, the tiger has broken his cage and wants 

 to run away). 



"What tiger? Where," I asked. 



He said, the tiger from the steamer. 



"Well, what do you want me to do ? The steamer 

 left last night. I am through with it."" 



"Te-dar Tuan" (No, Sir), he said, handing me 

 a letter, "the tiger is in my lighter and is tied to 

 one of the buoys in the harbor." He begged me to 

 get the tiger, as no one was near or on the lighter. 



The letter, which was from Mr. La Souef, writ- 

 ten before the steamer sailed, stated that the tiger 

 presented by the Sultan of Johore had broken his 

 cage and was in danger of getting clear away, as 

 the captain had had a sling put about the broken 

 cage after the ship's carpenter had nailed a few 

 boards to cover the hole the tiger had made and 

 partly strengthened it, hung the cage over the side 



