Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-07-26

trouble and anxiety about the elephants. Most
of them got sea-sick, which was manifested in
their refusing either TO eat or drink for several
days, but they soon got over their quamishness,
and were able to eat as hearty as when on dry
land At the Cape of Good Hope we began TO
have rough weather. We had three terrific
gales while rounding the cape, and the rough
weather continued from the 18th to the 22d of
May. We all felt great deal of anxiety about
the elephants, who sometimes set up fearful
roaring, but luckily the bark weathered the gales
successfully, and the elephants thanks to the eX-
cellent precautions taken to lasten them securely
in their stalls, came through ii uniniured. As
showed you when below, there were the two iron
rngbolts driven and riveted into the sides of the
vessel and the strong bar of teak wood well
dashed to the front OF the stalls Well sir in rough
weather we used to tic their hind legs to the
ring bolts, and the beasts would themselves
wrap their trunks around the wooden bar be-
fore them and hold fast, and in this position
the waves might toss the vessel as much as they
pleased, but they couldn't throw the elephants
off their feet. Sometimes, to be sure, an extra
ordinary lurch to one side or the other of the
craft, would throw the elephants backs up
against the deck overhead, but this didn't hap
pen often enough to give them much annoyance.
We put in at st. Helena to take in fresh sup
ply of water, and to get some green feed for
the beasts. We took in 5000 gallons of water
there, and treated the elephants to feast of
green grass, which they ate with hearty relish,
and showed, IN their elephantine fashion, the
liveliest gratitude to those who fed them. They
used 10000 gallons of water on the passage,
and eat up 1876 bales of hay, averaging 275
pounds per day, which food was in addition to
two bushels of gramm and paddy, the last roll
cd up in the form of little balls or cakes, and
fed to them from the hands Of their Chingha-
lese keepers. Every individual on board
would occasionally give them sea
biscuit, which was esteemed by the
elephants to be great luxury. We selected
names for some of the elephants on the voyage,
which suppose they will always retain. One
of them was known as Mandoy. This animal
was the king elephant of the whole crew of
them. He belongs to what the natives call high
caste, and all the other beasts were afraid OF
him. He was, without doubt, with the excep-
ton of another high caste elephant that was
my favorite, and whom called Nehemiah Glib
son, the most knowing creature in the whole
lot. Mandoy was everybody's favorite, and
believe he will make his mark in the states.
Another one that we called the Raah was the
pounds. Then there was the baby elephant,
only eight years old and weighing 800 pounds
The elephant that died on the passage had ev-
erything done TO save him that was possible,
but nothing would avail. Chanum said that
his disease was dropsy. The other elephants, |
really believe, were conscious and felt sorrow
for his death. When we were hauling him up
on deck to throw him overheard MandOy, the
elephant ! told you about, threw his trunk
around the hind legs of the dead beast, in the
same caressing manner that | had observed
them do when they wished to show friendship.