SHIPPING WILD ANIMALS 105, 
the whole shipment put over the side and dumped 
into the harbor. 
That was the story Captain Edwards told me on 
his return trip to Singapore, and he laughed heart- 
ily over the way he said Mr. La Souef was hopping 
about in his pajamas. 
My bill against the Society for services, paying 
for the lighter. the tiger was put into from the 
steamer, labor, recaging, feeding for twenty-one 
days, and enough food for eighteen to twenty-one 
days’ voyage to Melbourne seemed to Mr. La Souef 
an overcharge and my bill of £50 all out of propor- 
tion; as the tiger was a gift from the Sultan of Jo- 
hore and not purchased. I insisted and drew on him 
for that amount, at the same time resigning as agent 
for his society, telling him that although he was an 
older man, he had still to learn the art of caging, 
recaging and shipping animals, not receiving them, 
and that had he not insisted on having things done 
his own way with cheap material, and had left it to 
me, what happened could not have happened, as 
barely one-third of his shipment landed alive. 
By the time I had disposed of the last of my ele- 
phants, I was so sick with the fever that I could not 
leave my bed. I was dangerously ill and I began 
to realize that I should be lucky if I escaped with 
my life. 
Mr. Lambert, who had been my friend ever since 
T landed at Singapore to enter the animal business, 
engaged passage for me on a steamer bound for 
