ELEPHANTS 



German friend that, whenever he appeared in public, his 

 display of jewellery was most imposing; this fact, coupled 

 with his having been mistaken by the railway officials for 

 Prince Albert, resulted in the kind assistance rendered by 

 them. 



While I was making arrangements to convey this dead 

 elephant to Norwood a gentleman residing in Camden 

 Town introduced himself to me and offered to allow me 

 the use of his large garden in which I could skin and 

 cut up the dead elephant, upon the understanding that 

 he should have the flesh as he had a large number of big 

 dogs that he could feed with it. I readily accepted his 

 kind offer, and accordingly the elephant on the trolley 

 was drawn up to the gates at the back of his house. 

 Unfortunately, however, the trolley was too wide to be 

 drawn into the garden, consequently my assistants and 

 I had to skin and cut up the animal in the presence of 

 the crowd of two or three hundred people. The skin 

 which I had taken to Sydenham I afterwards mounted, 

 and it was exhibited for some years in a hunting scene 

 in the Crystal Palace, but as this stuffed specimen was 

 surrounded with growing plants, which were constantly 

 being watered, the saturation and moisture destroyed it 

 and consequently resulted in its removal from the building. 



THE SICK KLEPHANT AT THE ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, 

 CLIFTON, NEAR BRISTOL. 



A fine female elephant in the above-mentioned Gardens 

 was for some long time suffering from lameness ; she was 

 fast losing flesh, and was showing every symptom of 

 gradual decay. 



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