SHIPPING WILD ANIMALS I0I 
counting the tiger, the gift of the Sultan of Johore: 
Two small orang-outangs, twenty monkeys, one sun 
bear, one honey bear, two civet cats, one bintu- 
rong, four crown gora pheasants, one black leopard, 
one clouded leopard, spotted and looking like an 
ocelot, one female tiger, two samber deer, two 
mouse deer, in all fourteen cages and three crates. 
At five o’clock the following morning, I was 
awakened by a hammering at the gate and the call- 
ing of “Tuan! Tian!’ Looking out, I saw a native 
boatman. “What do you want?” I called. 
“Tian, etu re-mow, pe-char sanken, mon _ lor- 
rie” (Sir, the tiger has broken his cage and wants 
to run away). 
“What tiger? Where,” I asked. 
He said, the tiger from the steamer. 
— “Well, what do you want metodo? The steamer 
left last night. I am through with it.” 
“Te-dar Tian” (No, Sir), he said, handing me 
a letter, “the tiger is in my lighter and is tied to 
one of the buoys in the harbor.” He begged me to 
get the tiger, as no one was near or on the lighter. 
‘The letter, which was from Mr. La Souef, writ- 
ten before the steamer sailed, stated that the tiger 
presented by the Sultan of Johore had broken his 
cage and was in danger of getting clear away, as 
the captain had had a sling put about the broken 
cage after the ship’s carpenter had nailed a few 
boards to cover the hole the tiger had made and 
partly strengthened it, hung the cage over the side 
