THE RE-DOMESTICATION OF THE 

 AFRICAN ELEPHANT 



GERMANY, which feels the want of a reliable beast 

 of burden in her East African territority even more 

 than England, seems to have resolved on the re- 

 domestication of the African elephant. Some time 

 ago a German officer commenced a series of visits 

 to the Indian ' keddahs,' and after mastering so far 

 as possible the Indian methods and system of catching 

 and training wild elephants, has hired a staff of ex- 

 perienced Indian catchers and trainers, and is to 

 establish a Government 'Elephant Stud' in German 

 East Africa. Mr Carl Hagenbeck, proprietor of the 

 Thierpark at Hamburg, has recently contributed an 

 interesting article on this subject to the Hamburger 

 Nachrichten. Mr Hagenbeck's name is a household 

 word in Germany and the United States, and his 

 name became familiar in England last summer, when 

 he exhibited his Somali s and their animals at the 

 Crystal Palace ; but it is perhaps worth noting that 



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