160 BEASTS AND MEN 
I had obtained some control of my pupil. After four hours he 
had so far grasped what was required of him that he would 
lie down when commanded to do so, would allow me to 
clamber on to his back, and would, again at the word of com- 
mand, stand up once more. That was the first day’s lesson. 
On the second day I trained him to allow me to ride him to 
and fro in the menagerie, and the same evening he was duly 
African and Indian elephant. 
packed off to Breslau in charge of a keeper who had assisted 
in his education. I heard that my pupil in no way disgraced 
me at the show, but performed his part to the satisfaction of 
all concerned. 
When during the seventies of last century I was exhibiting 
my great Nubian caravan in the Zoological Gardens at Berlin, 
there were, among the other visitors from the Dark Conti- 
nent, five newly imported young African elephants. These 
youthful monsters stood about five to five and a half feet in 
height. One day Professor Virchow came to see me, and re- 
