The Progress., 1892-11-26

mails. 1t Eas'sometirnes had rs many n
eight dl1er3at parties in thc field q
once, and il las never had less than
three. In July, 1858, for instance, thi
house had ON hand fer shipment ;2O0 COZ
worth Of live animals, aid among then
were twelve fine elephants. have seoi
seven ships in the port of Hamburg n
o2e tins which had r0re or less cargo
aboard for the house. It owns thrct
vessels w.ich are always in commission
and has agents at various points in India
Africa, South America and Australia.
Il Is OF the expedition 10 1Lind2nao is
land ! am going 10 tell yol about. It Is
one Of The Philippines and lies about 30C
miles northeast Of the Island of Dorneo.
One day IN the year 1865 an American
sailor, who gave lis name as Thomas
Jepp, arrived in Hamburg on an English
sailing ship which had come direct from
Singapore. Jepp had with him for sale
species Of monkey the like of which
none OF Us had ever met with before. II
f'as about half the sizo Of full grown
gorilla, but 1t was neither gorilla, ape.
paboon, chimpanEee nor any other sDe-
cies ever coming into the Lousa.
1t was spotted like leopard; the in.
side CT its hands (feei) was flesh colored
It's tail was unusually long, and it diff
,Iered IL many other respects from anv.
ching we had before captured. The sailor
wanted big price fer the animal and
the information as 20 where it came
from. The house was always Oh its
guard against trickery. but two circum.
stances occurred to favor the sailor. A
naturalist who must have been muddled
with drink inspected the animal and de.
clared il something new and conse-
quently valuable, and Gn English show.
man who was in Hamburg offered a big
pl1cc for the curiosity and wanted tc
book an order for five others.
There is scheming in the anima, trade
as well as in I'll others. Men arc con.
tinually searching for something rare CT
new, and when found they try to keer
~ corner. on it. Tho records Of the
house did not show that any expedition
had ever been sent to the Philippines.
and an old German work on natural his.
tory declared that there were many
strange and unknown animals in that
group. The sailor claimed to have
bought the monkey from the captain of |
n sailing vessel at Singapore, and after
being paid $i00 for his pet and his infor.
matlcn said that the animal was cap
tured on the south coast of Mindanao
island, and thai hundreds could be had
for the trouble Of capturing. Just a.
that time rival house had opened fol
business at Eavre. and so an expedition
was fitted out as secretly and as rapidly |
as possible. The sailcr was offered
berth III the brig, but declined it ON the
ground that he wanted to return home.
We sailed from Hamburg with a crew
OF twelve men, and aside from our water
and provisions the only cargo we had
was a lot of ready mado cages.
1t was a good many months before ]
ceme to understand the Yankee trick
that Yankee Lad played on the house.
1t was simply an overgrown specimen
OF the monkey tribe found along the
foothills OF the mountain range of the
Malay peninsula, and had been brought
to Singapore from Pahang. As for the
rest, it had been doctored by the sailor
with dyes secured from Malay. The
T~ots could not be washed. OF. but in