The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 184?-1851, 1851-05-21
How they get ElepI,amtS,

Barnum. as The newspaper world knows, is
about to establish Kind Of perapatic OF 10.
comolive museum, including menagerie Of
wild animals, and immense collection of wax
figures. But what would menagerie be with.
out half dozen elephants, considering villa,
most people go to see, in caravan, is The
elephant? He therefore sent Mr.. S. B. June.
of Wes'chester county, in this State, to Asia,
in order TO look up good ASSORTMENT of these
desirable animals. The following letter
gives result Of the enierprize:
CoLrMRo, Ceylon, Dec. 3Oth, 1850.
The annoyances and delay which have
encountered In carrying out the project, have
been numerous and formidable, bu, believe
now all is in n successful train Of opera.
lion, On arriving at Port de Gale, / left
Captain Pratt and hurried TO Columbo, when
| advertized for elephants in the papers pub
ished in that town, but the result did NOT
give me very favorable idea of "ihe bene-
fits Of advcItzng,' at least in this benght-
ed country Government, private individu>
sand every one who had elephants for sale,
increased their dem ends to
such an extravagant pitch that de:e rmned
10 have nothing 10 do with any Of them, but
start 10 the interior and hunt for them in their
wild slate, feeling that any difficulties that
should meet could be greater shan those
encountered in my Giraffe expedition.
With George Nutier, Immediately start
ted for Handy, where we engaged party
Of natives to assist US, and took mp our line
of march for that part Of the Island where
The animals are found in the greatest num-
bers. An incessanl rain accompanied US,
and did not odd 10 the agreea5iliy of our
situation. The details Of our journey would
not be interesting TO you. We ut length
found traces ofa drove, and at once set about
constructing bitches and fences for pen,
which being finished and baited, we turned
our dusky fellow laborers loose, and they,
with the Internal din they managed TO pro.
duce by the aid cf strong lungs and vari.
ETY. Of noisy instruments, IN few hours
fTighened the whole herd into the enclosure
The most of the animals were secured 10
trees without difficulty, but one fine Bull,
much larger than either Columbus or Boli-
vat, gave us on, initiate amount oil trouble.
Indeed, il il had moi been for the presence
OF mind displayed by George Nutler, several
Of the natives would have been killed in their
endeavors 10 lash him. He had them com.
lpletely in his power, when two or three ri
fe balls from the opposite quarter served 10
disiraci his attention Tor moment, during
which time he was newly md more secures
Ily lashed, SO as 10 be incapable Of doing tur
ther mischief. II was several days, now-
ever, before he was sufficiently subdued 20
be loosed with safety. The result of this
expedition was fifteen as fine elephants ms |
wish TO see. Dividing our forces, sent Nut
ter further north in search of o few more Of
the same sort, and !, with The natives iha,
remained with me, set out 10 Columbo and
r.. Guile, taking our prizes with us.
The second day Of our journey the big
fellow died from the effec. Of bis wounds.
This ! regretted deeply, as 10 was much
the largest elephnn, had ever seen. The
night before reaching Handy, three or four
Of my mGhonts left suddenly, taking with
them another Of my elephants, but with the
remainder | safelyaTeacbed Port Gale, and
the whole .birteen are now safely on board
ihe bark. .s