SHIPPING WILD ANIMALS 107 
import duty, I sent comparatively few of my ani- 
mals to the United States. 
John Anderson, who was European adviser to 
the King of Siam and who had been created a Siam- 
ese nobleman, sent for me and offered me a commis- 
sion that kept me busy for the next five years. The 
King of Siam was in the habit of making presents 
of wild animals to foreign rulers, and it became my 
work to select the animals and supervise all details 
of shipment. I was sent to interview the Minister 
of the Interior, H. H. Prince Damerong, who gave 
me a permit to travel wherever I pleased in Siam 
and to force labor. In Siam, I directed many hunts, 
especially for tuskers to be used in the teak forests. 
The driving was done entirely during the daytime, 
and on elephants, instead of on foot, as in Treng- 
ganu. The fever had left me in bad condition, and 
so I did not take an active part in the work. 
On my trips between Bangkok and Singapore, T 
stopped off many times at Trengganu to renew my 
acquaintance with the Sultan and to talk with the 
native hunters, who were sending a steady stream 
of animals to me at Singapore. I was known to the 
natives throughout the Peninsula as Tian Gajah— 
Sir Elephant—and I was amused to find that the 
story of the big elephant hunt had grown to incred- 
ible proportions. The herd of sixty elephants be- 
came larger each time the story was told. 
After one exciting incident in the work of ship- 
ping animals for the King of Siam, If was allowed 
