SHIPPING WILD ANIMALS 105 



the whole shipment put over the side and dumped 

 into the harbor. 



That was the story Captain Edwards told me on 

 his return trip to Singapore, and he laughed heart- 

 ily over the way he said Mr. La Souef was hopping 

 about in his pajamas. 



My bill against the Society for services, paying 

 for the lighter the tiger was put into from the 

 steamer, labor, recaging, feeding for twenty-one 

 days, and enough food for eighteen to twenty-one 

 days' voyage to Melbourne seemed to Mr. La Souef 

 an overcharge and my bill of 50 all out of propor- 

 tion ; as the tiger was a gift from the Sultan of Jo- 

 hore and not purchased. I insisted and drew on him 

 for that amount, at the same time resigning as agent 

 for his society, telling him that although he was an 

 older man, he had still to learn the art of caging, 

 recaging and shipping animals, not receiving them, 

 and that had he not insisted on having things done 

 his own way with cheap material, and had left it to 

 me, what happened could not have happened, as 

 barely one-third of his shipment landed alive. 



By the time I had disposed of the last of my ele- 

 phants, I was so sick with the fever that I could not 

 leave my bed. I was dangerously ill and I began 

 to realize that I should be lucky if I escaped with 

 my life. 



Mr. Lambert, who had been my friend ever since 

 I landed at Singapore to enter the animal business, 

 engaged passage for me on a steamer bound for 



