ELEPHANTS 
German friend that, whenever he appeared in public, his 
display of jewellery was most imposing; this fact, coupled 
with his having been mistaken by the railway officials for 
Prince Albert, resulted in the kind assistance rendered by 
them. 
While I was making arrangements to convey this dead 
elephant to Norwood a gentleman residing in Camden 
Town introduced himself to me and offered to allow me 
the use of his large garden in which I could skin and 
cut up the dead elephant, upon the understanding that 
he should have the flesh as he had a large number of big 
dogs that he could feed with it. I readily accepted his 
kind offer, and accordingly the elephant on the trolley 
was drawn up to the gates at the back of his house. 
Unfortunately, however, the trolley was too wide to be 
drawn into the garden, consequently my assistants and 
I had to skin and cut up the animal in the presence of 
the crowd of two or three hundred people. The skin 
which I had taken to Sydenham I after Avards mounted, 
and it was exhibited for some years in a hunting scene 
in the Crystal Palace, but as this stuffed specimen was 
surrounded with growing plants, which were constantly 
being watered, the saturation and moisture destroyed it 
and consequently resulted in its removal from the building. 
THE SICK ELEPHANT AT THE ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, 
CLIFTON, NEAR BRISTOL. 
A fine female elephant in the above-mentioned Gardens 
was for some long time suffering from lameness ; she was 
fast losing flesh, and Avas shoAving every symptom of 
gradual decay. 
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