104 TRAPPING WILD ANIMALS 
It seemed that when the tiger first attempted to 
break out of his cage on board the steamer and the 
carpenter was ordered to get some boards and cover 
the hole he had been tearing, as the head showed 
against the opening the carpenter struck it with his 
hammer. The deer and smaller animals became 
terrified, and in their endeavor to escape, the deer’s 
legs got through the slats in the crates; they broke 
their legs and had to be killed. This I was told 
later by Captain Edwards, who said it all happened 
within a few minutes, Mr. La Souef running about 
like a madman, begging this and that, getting in 
the way of’everybody, but no one paying any atten- 
tion to him, and what with the excitement among 
the passengers, the roaring of the tigers, barking 
of the bears, chatter of monkeys and crying of the 
smaller cats, and the frantic efforts of the deer to 
break through the crates, he was only adding to the 
confusion and disorder, until Captain Edwards 
ordered the water hose brought into play to quiet 
the animals. He told the carpenter to get some 
boards and nail up the opening the tiger had made, 
then having a sling put about the cage with the tiger 
snarling and biting and tearing at the opening it 
had started, but now covered by the planks, swung 
it over the side of the ship and there it hung. The 
captain then had. the cages taken off the hatch and 
placed against the side of the steamer, telling Mr. 
La Souef that if he did not keep quiet he would have 
