The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-05-20 00:00:00

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he last vritEs(pFusdp,Ad. was thelrenilLiMT4ACCalmont,o
7.1
art* the- d' eased 0-64kria'..-Alioe on.yhu niglt-4 the
~ite.r'Plitlit r tneiscie,sitedithe•-terti'ef fife ',irteeting - and
k to, nett:lda Btptient and said the ddeeasbd was then '--a
ehttrntinll7.2l,'".;l4tVat'lls;'a/k tiatotritAl ri.tittfa"ve:
Mu and Ms wit . -.mei sppe'iiea.'tno he-on. itlexcel-
terittN,as : idani anduwife. 'lie was, not a' oe son; I in' mY
k i;;;F„li eIY,ArtURnI4I:,W4e jet of -snisidef,
,Ife wasre, most
Ile '
Deii On., „ ,i, ..,, ~i 4,01-- ; . ..„.t„atzi i - ' . ''' •
irp;Sthe aiide6e, an as taken frOm the depoldtians,
vist4,Wt4 gliVeil ii ithteasto.ba,•• That the deceased died
the &ached( .the,i)oituning Of antimony, but! we 'have'
satl4ent evidence tenhox.under, whAt, cireumsteinees, it
C lute hii bodY",
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oilowing is the Inecucal.evidenie allinflyekpo above,
islalajn•frora the Ofeclaal Exahiiir4r: •
"`ldgicatalit'OV Tuesdiy, the 18th.ofFA0 4rDr. Moore, of
,sliaihaligliat'Siiiiiebnid to attend Mr. 'BraiO. ' Ho arrived
çw.een7half-peat-nine and ten 'E
O'clock,, and fontid MrIILA
Iying4tack iit is
urieobscious. was partly Undressed, and* Mrs, Cox
Chair, breathing heavily ,autl.totelly
'Was rubbing',hl4"ciaest. Dr.
,Mccire, whd 'feared tub pulse
*Arid cease:Ulf:beat ..,at any. refloat% onadePhiquiries of
• ' PTP"Pk, Put Couldseseli tist silthing, to i icbmat.tfor
I the ilarining ;symptoms.. The lieart's action was so..feeblej
that Dr.-Moore tied the' hatiebt immediately placed in
apd administered an *Menet 0f brisiidY ;4 a' mnsta'rd"pbiiltice
yyas apppectoyer tbehregion 01 the, haat. ,Mr Harrison,- the
bind family attendant, had arrived, by t.this time, end the
heart'kection.began to improve: .Dr. GeoBe t"e' Johnson and
Mr. Bravo's cousin, 'Mr, Royett Bell,' both King's College
Just before their arrival the patient vomited. for ttte second
Hospital, having been sent for, arrived about.half•past two.
time;'ind 'Mrs. C,ox 'remarked" that .she. 'had v• v, u him
mustard, which might accottht .for'it.hlie first, lime he
vOmited was just before he became 111, the vomited matter
Nino.' tbe undigested contents . contents of ;JO. stomach, stained
with Burgundy wine the lecoad
consisted of -blood. About this time. the bowels were
opmed. • . voialit was black, and

complained of intense pain in the abdomen,
" gradually, improved, Auld at last-became conscious,
especially in the
region of the' StObitt6ll, and, With the assistance of those
standing by, •Whi' helped on•to theunight-stool, when he
passed a large quantity of beats, blond;.and mucus; he also
vomited a large quantity at .bloody, fluid. After this he did
not pass much by the bowel: but had constant tenesmus,
which was inost distressing. He took freely of iced milk and
champagne, but always vomited after an interval of a few
minutes, the vomit being quite free from blood.
"lire. Cox told Dr. Johnson and Mr. Belt that he had
said, 'I have taken poison,' but Mr. Bravo himself,
when quite conscious, denied that he had taken anything
but some opium for:rienraigia of the lower jaw, from-which
he was suffering; Dr. Johnson and Sir iWilliarn Gull, both
preyed him on the aribject, but he gave the same accouut
if his illness. It was suggested when he was first taken
ill that chloroform:. or opium had been taken, but the
pupils were not contracted, and there was no smell of
eiteer drug. Whehhe came to it was clear that the symp-
toms were duo to a powerful irritant poison. The poor
fallow suffered a gooddeal ofjabdominal pain, and vomited
cdustantity ; he Used at 530 a.m. on Friday, April 2lst, of
exhaustion, belng conscious up to the- last: Opium was
g,lven"-froallime to time, and iced milk and champagne ad
isbitum_i •It • -
"The post-mortem examination was made with great
care by Dr. Payeeds.of i. Thositas'i.Hilipital,-in. the pre.
sence of Dr. jblanson, Dr. MeOre„, Mr: 1301, and Mr..
Harrison. Thew iris no change- in the naeuth, tongue,'
pharynx, trachea cbiophaglis, stomach, or -small intestines
The stomach and anall--intesttees contained a yellowish
fluid • the large intestine, however, was injected with
blood in parts, and was filled with bloody mucus; the
rectum also showed signs of having been ir flamed. There
was hypostatic congestion of the lungs, but the organs of the
body were quite healthy. Portions of the intestines and
organs were removed for careful examination, and ana-
lysis. Professor Redwood had submitted th-him for exami-
nation a sealed jar containiug theundlgested contents of the
Stomach, and a bottle containing the..blOody.-VoPlit and
matter passed by the bowel, also &veep wine and portions of
the intestines and-liver; in -Done -Bad he'any difficulty in
fltidivg antimony, and he considered-that it had been re-
ceivea into the body as tartar emetic, and pointed out at the
iuteiest that antimony was a pciem little resorted to by.
suicides, but that it had been used by criminals to poison
others, being generally used as a slow poison.'

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The following adveriisement apptkared In ,Val Tames of
Tuesday (and other papers) relative-to this ease
"Five Hundred Pounds Reward,--Whereas up to the pre-
sent tima, it is not known where or by whom the antimony
or tartar emetic which caused the death of the late Mr.
Charles Deism:my Turner Bravo, of the Priory, }Wham,
Surrey, was procurad, on or before the 18;11 April last :—The
above reward will be paid, on behalf of his widow, by the
undersigned, to any one who will prove the sate of the said
antfrnony or tartar emetic in such a manner as will throw
satisfactory light on the mode by which Mg. Bravo. came by,
his death on the 21st April last. Mw information to be given
to Superintendent Williamson, Scotland-Yard, *Londan.—
BROOKS, JENKINS, and Co., Solicitors for Mrs. C. Bravo, 7,
GoClimaa-streer, Doctors'-commons, London." :'•••1 • •
..IJ eOtrl,

4,15 1.11 fa; I:
THE PRINCE 'OF WALES'S WILD
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On Friday (in last week) a portion Of the ldrqe number
• of - birds an d animals hroucht from India in the S%r/pis and
°downs by Ids Royal, Highness tho Prince of Wales, and
ehich.sre to be sent to the Loudon Zoological Gardens and
ta•Saudringham, were lauded at Portsmouth, and placed. in
charge of a keeper sent. specially to convey them to town.—
The Seecial Correspondent of the .Detzl News; in a letter to
that journal, gives a Most graphic and entertaining descrip-
tion of the animals and theirshabits, from which we extract
the following:—

. . . . The collection can:Trine reprelientatives of
nearly every tribe of Indian wild beast, and there are
in it animals of species whiola are elsewhere-unreptoN
sented'insEnrope...-Of its magnitude sbraeidea maybe
formed 'when it Is stated 'that there are nearly poo
animals—beasts and birdss—on'board the Serapis only..
' In tigers and leoparcle the menagerie is specially
strong: "Inkier-the break of the Balcigh,'s poop, *here
several special correspendents were quartered during
that Veisere voyage from Bombay to Ceylon, two large
W .tigresaes, endidly marked, now tramp restlessly to
and fro in roomy, cages faced with strong iron bars.
Sailors -make °themselves wonderfully at home with
mast animals, however:queer-tempered, but they hive
not been able to., get an good tense with these beautiful
furies, whsse ferocity in such that they growl confi-
• dentially, to themselves as they pace impatiently their
atilots. •. • •• Very different are the manners and,dispo•
sitions, of ' the young tiger and tigress, named re-
spectively l"T,oin " and ~ "Minnie," which inhabit
cages on the forecastle of, tile Serapis. They are not
full grown, being scarcely a year old, but they are very
large for their age, in splendid condition, and striped
with rare beauty and regularity. They, Were boria,
and bred in confinement, which accounts for theist,
docility ; and on -their way to the Serapis they were,l
led along the streets by a couple of natives as we see
ladies leading poodle dogs in a string. To quote
one of sailors, they walked up the companion '.just
like Christians." Every morning since their arrival ,
they have been brought out of their cages for a pro-
menade on deck, and the beautiful dangerous creaturee
are made quite pets of by the seamen of the Serapis.
At first their deportment was not quite perfect, as they
developed a strorig propensity for springing at dogs and,
deer, and on more than one occasion displayed hosl.
tility againet the black bear; but these objectionable.
peculiarities the sailors eradicitecl by summary
". clouts` on the side of the head," plc' they now con.
duct themselves with the utmost decorum, except that,
Minnie cannot cannot be broken of her unaccountable taste )
for furious onslaughts on ship's buckets. We all of usl
have our faults, and who of us can aver that his beset- ,
ting sin is more Venial than this curieus, failing which,
spoils the symmetry Of Minnie'ti perfection as a tamed,:
tigress? Of aieesdocile.teniperament is the beautifulbut
fierce tiger cub•whoseilina the Prince' shot in isiepaut„ ,
.and whose cage is now on tiie port Side of the wheel=
heuse of the Serapis. Its life ipissara to, be .mostly
gpent in a succession of furious springs and hoarse
, short roars, and when not thus venomously &telling at
everybody and everything that comes near it, it lies
writhing in a sullen fury of snarls aedgrowling, hissing,
and sltbwing its teeth. It made a desperate resistance
against the two Nepaulese who, after the killing of its
mother, were sent into he den to secure it, audit ivesnot
captured ulltil, inainaturis as are it claws and teeth, it
shad inflicted some severe bibes and scratches. 'lt is re;
ported to be unaffected by either kind treatment %.
stronger measures and had to be put into a smalle;
1 and stronger cage to keep it from mischief,- so that it most,
1 richly deserves its name of "Vixen." The collection '
is strong in leopards.,
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1 -Near to " -Vixen s e cage on the quarter-deckof the 1
Serapis is one containiea " P'hoolefharri," one of the
1 cheetahs, or huntieg leopards, which afforded sport to
the Prince and his companions on the piein just outside
of Baroda—a creature of supple, sinister grape, :long, 1
, lithe, and serpentine, with immense must:eller power in.
its,shoUlders. Is flat bead and lurid eyes remind ones
son:keg:hi:of the aspect Of a cobra. copellaw The cheetah'
when On the hunting cart, and wite his keeperby his
i .
side, is not vicious, and t is no earpleit to stroke his
beautifully spotted bipit,ibut SAStletsan .micapion he
is hooded, -and is also en his Isest, behaviour. , In the
clasetali of the •Sei•apes. no longer hooded, constantly
coufiaed in , a cage, and perhaps occasionally teased,
tini natbial ferocity of the species has reasserted itself,
and " Irhool Jliarti 1' .ii as' dingeroue and treacherous
* beauty as one is likely, to ..Illes even in this
i
wicked world: Close to it s " PomPe37." a beauti-
fully spotted little leopard, Nom the Calcatta
gardens, and born •in
,confinement, perfectly .tame
and playful as a kitten. .He is full of antics which
the sailors have taught him, and will jump over your
arm like' a dancing-dog, and then put up his beautiful
.head to be scratched. The Scraps. also carries the:
"bait leopard," Liy.. name "Jack "—full of play as
'' Pompey,Thitt given to a suspicious and not altogether
q
!confidenctinspirieg itcriata, scrosething between the
i mew of a mit mid an incsigent roar, accompanied .by *
itlisplay:of Claws and aiverysneat assortment of tee4l4
-and he *i a feline w ol wriggling himself among.
thestAttacif his be-cl figniter Jack is a pretty pet.
enougiquit now, when,iiiimg and comparatively limns,
cent; but, i; Year hekee it may not be quite so pleasant
to be within easy reach,- of his claws. On the Sera*
I there are four youngleePards, one of which is "the
sweetest:tempered • thing in the world," and is not
caged at all. .Of ' he two presented to the Prince
by Sir J;ung ;,Bahadeor, ' Lizzie " is bashful,
but harmless ;i • her brother, " Sailor," is me-
ported eignificantlY as " uncertain," and this
i feature Of his character is graphically illustrated
.by the face, hands, and arms of the young sailor who
-f looks after hins; which are all over scratches. He has
ea festive habit of converting trouser legs into ribbons,
. and has nalightilir .deprived sister "Lizee" of a large
nortion Of one of her ears. • Their immediate neigh-
r is, young sloth or black bear, with a most curious
rough 'of istrong.blick•hair round Lis neck—indeed, he
resembles .11.1)41 nt black .fui More than anything else.
The Prince slot. the dam; and two young ones, of,
which this is he survivor., were captured when trying
to Buckle their dead Mother. "Mr. Brown" loves the
seclusion of his' cage.ia a,sloomy corner, but is ani-
, mated,';ips-at , to
,siey, gindietivgamnen extracted theme.
from, sliferdoele not bbjeceto a ;,ough and tusable on the
otteek with: Mee. seiglalsors, the • young. leopards. ,It
tie i i ry,:ftenity tissee' al ;the five rolling silent together
shi 414. "Jamboo," another of the .Raleigli s pas-
iet erg, in a 'very largeand beautiful f all- grown leopard,
presented-to the Prince by the sergeants of the 109th
Regiment. " Jambuo," which ia Jst sindsslesk, set
lithe and supple, isa capricious annual, and "has
bag a
his liking and dislikings," He is not fond of officers
or strangers, and u unpleasant way of darting '
sestisealeW no,

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cruel white teeth. It ie",'" no sur;ender" n!i_t4 Ahe
;tdild,efiekilinlicit is clear its greatest jOif Weßiab% to be
elit yeurthrbat With teeth and claws. • On .one ,oc6iion
be worked hirngeV into such a fury that it' kala feared
he was going rall,ll, and his cgs was carried, into a '
dark Place Where hb niight cool down in seclusion.. .:
1 The l'erinee has brought homa four elephants, two on
,the 'Sel'apia and ' two on the ,Osborne alLfour young
ones; or as they are. called In, India;_ butaas. The
Serapis pair, which are preients froni‘SirJang Baha.
door, are the larger, antiSalar Kelley is rather more
more than half grown.: ;: His smaller,companion, Jung
Pershad, is the ,liyelie.r . and more intelligent, and the
, men of the Scraps :have made him quite an•acc,om-
plished yOung elephant th 'the cburse of the 'voyage
4:tome: He haliliiistered bn inilesaribably comic waltz
•step, and.ean-make his bow with the aplomb pi .it pro-
,lgssor Of deportment. Bat the Serapis elephants can-
anpt compare in,Lyereatility ofdttfnabilities to the two
4lmical black little pit,digies. et talent, on..board the
sborne. It is claimed foi 'these thatlillei" Can d 6.
i 4rything but speak,- ander trefaii Tanjore butehas it
'cii dlear that they mastered the cumprfihensiojnof th?
;4 ' lish language. During the voyNe tpo ..1 OM
rib, ed tett-Ina-nit kabotii•iii • hauling up'and 1. Wig the
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lap -buckets from the furnaces. They kept watch and
,ay ch, and worked in canv,as harness. At the words
oist away,' the One on duty would begin to pull,
c tting a queer squeak of remonstrance as he felt the
l' e ght, and Atopping 4:lci,& ',at the worda k)“, high
' 'en ugh." The Osborne came into Portsmouth harbour
'.wi h "Omar,/ aerenelypeathed'on•one padhle.box and
'llnatonn" on , the other.-' It, would be i interesting
.hs know what their Orat impressions were tigard-
in the aapeat of this island sd %tie. The . horses
wee' taken' on shore Yesterday,' id'at 'With: them
was the Yiikand pony ,or ' ghOont: 30 inchei high
or thereabouts, ' Which used to run loose 'about the
dee& if. the Serapis ;,, but. . two beasts of burden
still'. remain .On board that .ship—the dainty. and
)ful " gainies," or miniature bullocks; which,
. the tiny • crimson:covered “ ecka"- with silver
sels, of •whiChthey were the team, were among the
~.;,sents to the Princekiit liankipore.- The " gainies "
j rgice in the names -respectively. of Serapis and
Tattims. On the Serapis there are eight Indian dogs.
Your of these are tailless dogs—jackal looking animals
with sharp noses, cockears, and not- enough tail to
swear by,. much less to wig;' and four are "hill"
dogs, varying somewhat-in-breed. One pair are not
unlike rough' and rather underbred collies, with:the
black and tan well developed nn;the face, l.?uttheg,
are more muscular, especiallirisnrithe limbs. auldasp-(
some points they resemble the 40k-hound. The other
pal, which • are a present froth' Sir"A. Ramsay, are
mu h larger and hetirier 'dogs,' bearing a reseth-
bla ee in .tiome Poitita;•to thutmastilf, in others -tcr
the St. Bernard. One. is an especially noble-looking
dot,
t,
although
.his appearance has been ,temporarily
spoiled by , his being. clipped French _poodle fashion.
dlss as a heavy coat oj tawny orange, hair, darkening
onf
nzzle and limbs; Ili head is as full of majesty and
Int ltigence asthat of auy Si'. Bernard lever awv ; be
ii) rge•framed, tall indpoiverfUli and his whole as-
pec is full of dignity and sagacity. One of the cages
11. on e_Rah ienis
leio is occupied •by a Himalayan "boned,"
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or Wild dog,"-an animal strojgly resembling an,Engli;h
fox , hat larger And heavier. _ The wild dogs. of the
Himalayas hunt in packs; they are very ferocious, and
are j regarded as untameable, but the mood of the '
animai on the Raleigh hiss so far iioftened that he licks
the )aand of the man who attends on him.
Of .. ...
f ,deer the phlleption contains many and . Varied
1 spekimens. Li a horsebox on the Serapis is a magni-
fica t Barnhill-, or 'barn singlia, stn sinicod as large and
as's ately airthe biggest ien. deer. Ilia antlers When
he thmeon board nisasiired'nearly five feet across,- but
they had to'be'shortened,. for at first-the eambur was
extremely wild 'and - even .daugerous,-,and it took a
dozn men to vat him into bis horsebox.: . He has now
quieted down, but still cannot be : termed a corn,
panionable ,
_animal., .04 . the . Scrapis there are
three Indian antelopes and a blac'r buck: " the
gazelle brought home for the Princess of - Wales
has been forwarded--to London. The after part
of
illie Od,orne's qiiarter-deck is quite lined on
eit r side with boxes containing deer. There
are wo hog deer and seven antelopes—pretty graceful
crertures, with dark browikbodies, white underneath,
with long spiral horns. The-Raleigh , brought. home a
musk deer, or Cuatoora, .4 variety of which , there .is
none now in.Eugland ; although, there have been musk
deer in the7-Z6olC;gical Gardens they are nOunger,
ali . - The-Mask deer inhibits the higher ranges of
the Himalayas' • being folind at an elevation of from
9,0 -to 11,000 feet ;- iri its jaw there is A curious long '
tooth like that of a walrus, and its body is covered with
stify. quill shaped hair, which acting as a non-conductor
enahles it to resist the cold of its mountain home. On
the I Raleigh also there is another animal _unique in
li Ea e---a 7 thiroee, the female of. the than the
wil • goat or chamois of the -Upper Himalaya.
It a extremely. shy and difficult to, shoot, much
mo to 'captura,-- to `that Sir Jung Babadoor
.was not able to -preent-the Prince witha pair. 'There
are '
1,
ndications however, that the thirnee of the Raleigh
will not long be the only 'specimen of the species now
in Angland. , In a. pen amidships. of., the Osborne are
four beautiful shawl goats of the long-haired specimen,
a Cashmere ram and one pf the Baroda fighting yams,
whose motto is "Ready, aye . ready:" He. has had
sundry encounters
,with the Cashmere ram and' the
• two'are now kept apart ;lint the Maliratta ram,
• one pair of horns rising over'bis head, the Other inclin-
ing downwards and backwards toward the shoulders,
stands ever at attention, facing his foe resollitely, the
embodiment asteadfast alacrity for fighting. .
0 the monkeys there is no room to speak in detail,
or o the beautiful Nepaul pheasants which were among T
Sir ung Bab adoor's presents, and which cannot fail
to attract attention and admiration when the collection
Is .e hibited. The armadillo, or scab% mann, did not
com
came the voyage, having died of the wound fro, m
whi h he was suffering when he ou board; but
the ICingalese yellow parrot, the rarest of the rare of
his ipecies, is extant and flourishing, aiiii the naon-
goo —that curious composite of rabbit, weasel, guinea
)ig, squirrel, rat; and bat. Mr. Drew has -brought
,nai in the Serapis some black partridges, the accli-
mat ation of- which in Norfolk the Prince is anxious
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TIO Daily News °Monday gives the following par-
ticulars respecting the journey of the wild animals to
London : At) •
At, seven o'clock on the evening of Friday (in last week),
Salar Kelley and Jung Pershad, the two young elephants
presented to the Prince by Sir Jung Bahadoor, were brought
out or the Serapis, and started on their march by road to the
Z aelogleal Gardens. Saler Kulley b:haved like a perfect
gentleman. Jung Petalled, who on his Indian railway
journey down to Bombay smashed the truck on which he was
travelling, gave some trouble at first, displaying a coesider-
able dislike to quitting the Serapis ; but his Mahout soon re-
duced him to order. Their progress through Portsmouth,
preceded by an avant courier to notify their approach
created no small sensation. When last seen they were
plodding along the London road, each carryirig, his own
Mahout, while a keeper from the ZOologlcar'Gardbns and
a , marine walked alongside and the • artist of an
Illustrated paper brought up the rear. The two.
distinguished travellers spent the night between Saturday
and Sunday in Godalming, and were reported to be active
and enduring pedestrians, so by this time they have probably
passed through London and are snugly housed at the Zoo.
The sad experience furnished by the railway journey from
Portsmouth to London of the elephant which the Duke of
Edinburgh brought home from India, and which is now in
the Dublin Zoological Gardens, when the animal became un-
governable tram terror and crushed his keeper to death, im-
pressed on Mr. Bartlett the advisability of prefering a road
journey for his young:charges, and all the more so became
they are perfectly docile and under control, and in excelh,nt
health after their long voyage. The two Thibetan mastiff.;
Ramsay and Jung, Peter Robertson took with him direct to
Sandringham. .
The "wild beast train" it was originally intended to start
from Port,mouth early on Saturday mornimr, so as to get -
the animals through London, and into their quarters at the
Zoo, while the deylight yet lasted. But the work, notwithe
stet ig the hearty zeal of the crews of the Serapis and
Osb( r proved heavier and more tedious than had been
an' ' is:ted, and it was not till pest three o'olock in the
a ion that the train quitted the railway jetty in Ports-
Deckyard. The most awkward part of the work
was le removal of the ostriches, which were quartered
Intl wheelhouse of the Serapis. Two were placed together
in a large cage, or transhipping box, the other came up
esdone. In another transhipping box were located toeether
-the two young elephants of the Osborne, Eastern, and
'Omar, and they went over the side amid a chorus of regrets
and farewells from the crew of the beautiful paddle yacht.
All the cages and boxes were carefully covered with canvas
and tarpauling, so that none of their contents were visible.
The larger cases were placed in open railway tracks, but
those containing the felidee and the birds were inside closed
vans: Of the twenty-six trucks composing the train, some
eight or ten carried luggage belonging to the Prince and
suite; the rest conveyed the animals. The journey to town
wag at a success in point of speed, the engine failing at
bite els and finally breaking down about a mile outside
Wit. sewalk Terminus ; and it wes marked by an accident
whe is very regrettable. At Chichester a telegram was
plac in the heeds of Mr. Bartlett, in which he was
informed that a large deer had been found dead by
the side of the line, about e mile from Portsmuuth. Until
the receipt of this message there was no suspicion that any-
thing was wrong, but an inspection at once showed that the
home-box was empty which had centained the largest and
finest deer of the collection, the- Cesbniere deer, which in
eaturday's Daily Netts was called a satn bur. The lacing and
fastening of the tarpauling hood were found loose and flap-
ping at one end, and the animal, which was always shy and
wild, had probably made a jump clean out of its box. All
was safe and fast when Mr Bartlett inspected the train
before starting, and the conjectuse is that some curic;ths
person just at the point of starting must have undone the
lacing to look at the deer.
It was quite ten at night when the passengers by the wild
beast train, having left it standing disaeled it mile down the
line, tramped into the Willow-wall: Station. Hero, by the light
of the lanterns, were visible a large and eager gathering of
railway officials and workmen, who were waiting to dis-
charge the train, and who it appeared had been waiting
ever since six o'clock. In attendance also were several of
men from the Zoological Gardens, who greeted Mr. Bartlett
with great warmth. It should be mentioned that wherever
in this article Mr. Barlett is named, it is Mr. Clarence Bart-
lett, who is the son of the estimable superintendent of the
Zoological Gardens, that is meant. Mr. Clarence Bartlett has
been in India with the Prince of Wales, and came home in
the Serapis as the naturalist in charge of the collection. In
the abseuce of the beasts, the Willow-walk crowd concen-
trated its attention upon the native keepers, and there was
much surprise at the discovery that they knew English.
After some delay the train was broughtnp to the siding amidst
an interest which was scarcely repaid by results. The tigers
declined to roar, even the wild cat had temporarily ceased
. from snarling, and the tailless dogs were presumably asleep,
since when awake they yelp with fiendish persistency.
Nothing was to be heard, nothing !strange or rare' was to he
seems, unless in such a category may be mentioned the head
of'the Barbary donkey on which Lord Charles Beresford dis-
tinguished himself at Gibraltar races, and which looked out
on the scene with an expression of the profoundest wisdom.
The work of shifting the canvas-hooded cages from the
trucks to the va,np was at once busily commenced—a truck at
a time being moved up into the shoo, where, by the gastight,
strong end willing arms worked the crane. Tne quietude of
the animals was Arprising. The tigress "31iunte " emitted
something between a grunt and a yawnas her cage was run
; the low vindictive gasping of the tiger cab "Vixen "
was audible as a gang of men ciaughtap the cage and car-
ried it across the platform; the demoniacal Meter cat hissed
With all its chronic venom and madtdaes with its claws at
the canvas from the inside while its cage was lifted; futd
"Phool lharri," the cheetah,' gave a single short sharp grow
jest as the van carrying it moved on. That was all; and
that it was so little caused much disappointment. It would
hare been oonsldeeed much more satiatantory, and a subatan.

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