SHIPPING WILD ANIMALS 107 



import duty, I sent comparatively few of my ani- 

 mals to the United States. 



John Anderson, who was European adviser to 

 the King of Siam and who had been created a Siam- 

 ese nobleman, sent for me and offered me a commis- 

 sion that kept me busy for the next five years. The 

 King of Siam was in the habit of making presents 

 of wild animals to foreign rulers, and it became my 

 work to select the animals and supervise all details 

 of shipment. I was sent to interview the Minister 

 of the Interior, H. H. Prince Damerong, who gave 

 me a permit to travel wherever I pleased in Siam 

 and to force labor. In Siam, I directed many hunts, 

 especially for tuskers to be used in the teak forests. 

 The driving was done entirely during the daytime, 

 and on elephants, instead of on foot, as in Treng- 

 ganu. The fever had left me in bad condition, and 

 so I did not take an active part in the work. 



On my trips between Bangkok and Singapore, I 

 stopped off many times at Trengganu to renew my 

 acquaintance with the Sultan and to talk, with the 

 native hunters, who were sending a steady stream 

 of animals to me at Singapore. I was known to the 

 natives throughout the Peninsula as Tuan Gdjah 

 Sir Elephant and I was amused to find that the 

 story of the big elephant hunt had grown to incred- 

 ible proportions. The herd of sixty elephants be- 

 came larger each time the story was told. 



After one exciting incident in the work of ship- 

 ping animals for the King of Siam, I was allowed 



