Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-06-17
PAHT or A xunIAk CARAVANS,
an UnasuAi shipment Of wild
Beasts Brought From the
Jungles into Heboken.

through the streets Of Hoboken on
Thursday, the people who thropged
the thoroughfares had but few oppor-
tunities to Judge of the true appear
ance of the beasts. They were Just
from Africa, and were very wild. On
the street no two were at all alike ex.
cept in regard to the strap on
each ones head, and the man
hanging on to it. 1t was impossible
to say which side OF the street any
one of them was at any moment. An
instantaneous photograph would have
shown one fixed like civil engineers
tripod with man tugging at it, an
other leading along tugging at the man,
another striking out in all directions
like Chinese fre-work, still another
pirouetting round and round like a
lady at a ball, and one or two more
apparently on their heads with their
feet at that attitude that their heads
usually attain. They we're following a
truck, on which were laden full
grown COW antelope, an Gland, and a
baby hippopotamus and behind
which, much against their will,
two young elephants were being
at times tugged along by
means OF a rope tied to the
vehicle, and at other times urged on
By a negro, who whipped them with a
rawhide and evoked 'as much dust
from their backs as if he were beating
a couple of long neglected rugs. APP
parently 100000 children accompa-
MED the procession, and clambered
over the walls and fences whenever
one of the elephants or a giraffe was
more than usually demonstrative.
Behind all these, and forming sepa.
rate procession, there followed four
ostriches, three baby lions, a leopard,
a chitah, five apes, nine hamadeyas
balloons, FIVE wart hogs, sixty small
monkeys of various sects,a giant percu-
pine, and number ofmuskcats, lynxes,
swans, peacocks, and innumerable
small birds. They constituted the
largest importation Of African quad
rupeds and bipeds ever landed here,
and were consigned to the Messrs.
Reiche, of New York and Hoboken.
Their cost was $4,000.
Reiche's men left Germany last
August for their farm in lower Nubia,
and in October, having equipped 70
or so natives with horses, weapons
and ammunition, set out into the
jungle and killed great variety Of
old animals and birds whose young
were old enough to be weaned.
These were taken to the Reiche
farm on the banks Of the Dinda river,
in lower Nubia, and fed on goats
milk until they were able to at.
tempt the journey across the NJ
bian desert to the point of shipment,
Suakin. A drove of $50 goats accom-
panied them, and when their milk
gave out their flesh served as food for
for the lions, leopards and negroes.
The steamship at Suakin lay out in
the stream, and the animals were taken
to it on fatboats. A lion broke loose
and frightened the other animals so
that two giraffes, an antelope and
three ostriches leaped overheard and
were lost. The animals went through
Europe by rail, and were shipped
hither from Bremen. During the
Atlantic voyage three giraffes and
four Galeda apes caught cold and
died. One of the apes was as large as
a man of ordinary size. The Others
are large beasts, and each has a mantle
of silken black hair of the size and
shape Of a coachmans cape. Their
teeth are as large as the little finger OF
a man, and each has bare bright red
spot on its breast the shape Of heart
and the size ola tomato can. They are
the first of their kind to visit this
country.
Nearly everybody in Hoboken wit
messed the landing ofthe animals. The
elephants, although the German long
shoremen were familiar with them,
and called them "Chumbo,
protested against quitting the
ship, and ran back into the cage that
they we're swung down in after they
had reached the pier. The Ostriches
wriggled and scrambled and tumbled
about wildly in mid air, and the. 81
RATES. shed tears from fright. The
thousand birds, However. in theiI
darkened cages, sang loudly as the
derrick swung them over the ships
side. The baby hippopotamus showed
no concern at all, but slept through
all but the jolting Of the cart. HC
is the sixth or seventh hip
popotamus that has come here
Reiches hunters say that the
hippopotamus and rhinoceros are the
most difhcult animals to catch. M
beast guards its young as the hippo
potamus does. 1t can sec and hear as
no other animal can, and is hunted
only in the water. The hunters havt
to shoot the parents first, and ther
must harpoon the babies. II the!
can, they harpoon the young in tn
heshy part Of the headquarters. Tn,
wounds there heal quickly. If tht
harpoon enters anywhere else the ami
NAL bleeds to death. The throe-y yea
old hippopotamus that Barnum ha
was captured two minutes after it wa
born, but all the others, including tn
fat and stupid brute thatsw LANDED
from the Bremen steamship Habsbur
on Thursday, bear upon their flank
the scar of the harpoon.
This load formed less than half Q
the caravan Of wild beasts that re
suited from this years hunt. Tn
rest will follow soon.
$4,000 Reward
For any case Of weakness, i'll health
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