SHIPPING WILD ANIMALS 99 
ing the animal too much play to break the cage, 
and as it was weakened by having a space between 
the floor and the cross piece, unless made of heavy 
and strong wood. I always caged for shipping 
animals in small narrow cages or boxes; heavy 
wood; sides of wood, but bars at each end and na 
space. When wood or water was to be given them, 
the food was cut up small enough to be poured 
between the bars, and a drinking pan nailed to the 
floor of the cage. When cleaning out the cage on 
board the steamer, both front and rear covers were 
taken off and the cage flushed with water, at the 
same time giving the animal a bath. The bath in 
some instances, and according to the animal, would 
be dispensed with, but never with cat animals. 
{ returned to Johore the following day with a 
transporting cage, and with Ali and the assistance 
of a few of the prisoners from the jail, soon had 
the tiger safely boxed and on his way in a bullock 
cart to my animal house in Orchard Road, there 
to be recaged in the cage Mr La Souef was 
having built under his directions, by my Chinese 
carpenter who built all my cages. Taking me aside 
he said: “Ttian, etn, Orang bon-yer, gee-har sat-tu 
Jam remow pe-char” (Sir, that man is very fool- 
ish, the tiger will break his cage in an hour). I 
said, “Never mind, make the cage as he wants it, 
that is his look out.” 
Well, the cage was made, the tiger moved into 
it, and a few days later we loaded his shipment on 
