SHIPPING WILD ANIMALS 109 
ing in Singapore after six months of hard work. 
Just as I had almost decided to go to Europe, I hap- 
pened to see in an old copy of the New York Clipper 
. anadvertisement of a steam merry-go-round. That 
gave me an idea; there had never been a merry-go- 
round in the Malay Peninsula, and I was confident 
enough of my judgment of Malay nature to gamble 
that it would be a success. Mr. Lambert didn’t 
agree with me. “Forget about it,” he advised. 
“Take the steamer. and have a good vacation.” But 
I went to the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank and 
cabled $2,000 in gold to the factory at North Tona- 
wanda, New York, with instructions to ship me the 
merry-go-round on the first boat, via London. It 
arrived nine weeks later, and it cost me £110 in 
freight. The rain was beating down steadily in 
Singapore, and so I transshipped it to Penang. 
‘A few days later, I was in Penang, driving 
around in a rickshaw, looking for a good location, 
while the merry-go-round, still in crates, was com- 
ing ashore in sampans. Opposite the Hotel de la 
Paix I found a good open space, and I routed out of 
bed the Chinese merchant who owned it. I told him 
that I should like to rent the lot for a show and that, 
if he would come to terms with me, I would let him 
and his family ride free of charge. Now a Chinese 
likes a show better than anything else on earth, and 
so we were not long in closing a bargain. I was 
to pay him a rental of $1 Mexican a day and te 
have an option of two months on the lot. I had no 
