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'In Suez a, full-orowu giraffe ran away with ine. The 

 rope I held him l)y got entangled round my arm, and 

 I could not get free. I was dragged along the streets 

 and fearfully banged about. When I at length got 

 loose I was so exhausted I was obliged to lie down for 

 a quarter of an hour without moving. Another time 

 a freshly imported troop of elephants ran away in 

 Vienna. I was upon one of them myself, the others 

 hugging close to it. I lost my elephant-guiding hook, 

 but I stopped him by biting his ear with my teeth, 

 when all the others, which were closely bunched round 

 him, stopped with him. I got the six elephants, as I 

 thought, safely tethered by a rope in the railway-car ; 

 but the rope broke, and there was I with six loose 

 elephants boxed up in a closed car. When I got out 

 I was uninjured. Another time a big African elephant 

 got frightened at the railway-station at Hamburg and 

 ran away with me, but I held fast to his ears, and 

 finally brought him back to his stable. Another time 

 a big elephant got hold of me, lifted me up, and 

 smashed me down on a barrier which was before him. 

 I got several bruises, but no bones were broken. 

 Again, I was chased by a male ' must ' elephant, which 

 had gone mad. I came w^ell out of that also, and 

 finally tethered him unaided. Once again I was pack- 

 ing animals away in a large packing-case, and was 

 standing with my back to a six-feet tusker elephant. 

 This elephant had been badly treated, but this I was 

 unaware of. All at once the elephant made a rush at 

 me, and literally pinned me to the packing-case. One 

 tusk grazed me on my right side, the other grazed my 

 left. My clothes were cut, and the skin on both my 



