Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-05-22
MENAGERIE MAKING.
An Undertaking That the Sight
seers Do Not Appreciate.
THE CAPTURE OF WILD BEASTS.
Their transportation and Adventure Full OF
Hazard incidents and Accidents Of tho
Veteran Collector Of Rare Beasts
Karl Hasenbeok.
THE CAPTURE OF WILD BEASTS.

Copyright, 1879, by Raymond Hath
For The Gazette.
Hamburg, May 4.-Fcw Of those people
WIN 70 10 menagcriu realize what
an immense undertaking II Is 10 transport
wild beasts from the land of thuir birth
and of their freedom 10 the land of
their imprisonment, and too frequently
of their death But II h very vast
undertaking indeed; how vast viii at
tciupt To show within the limits of this
brief article,
will ask my readers to picture for
themselves an African desert blazing
beneath burning sun. Across tiiv
weary waste of sand o long column VI
men aud animals is vending It's slow
way. As " draws nearer we see that IL
il u caravan Of wild animals ON their
way from the Interior To The sealoard,
As IL passes us the vast mass Of living
creatures, us In u chemical process,
slowly dissolves itself into distinct par
ticles and indlviduulitics. Lot Us regard
them carefully.
In the first place We notice u process
sion OF fourteen stately GRIZZLIES, ilen
come five elephants, o huge rhnucerus,
four wild buiinloes believing WhlN nttrr
tho mates they have forever left behind
Then 40 numbering M number ni cnur-
nous carts or wagons, in which are safe
~ confined thirty lyeuas, 1--WE leopards,
six lions two chetnhs, sixteen nntclupes
two lyuNes one scrynl one wnrdhuh,
twenty smaller cnrnilor0us unlmnlH, iuur
African anteatcrs aud f0rty.ive monkeys
Aud then there comes slowly prnnuiug
hy, wary. RESTLESS, cunning, twenty
ustrichrs. There urc twenty boxrs Of
birds, from which sounds Of shrill scrvnm-
INK ARE constantly proceeding.
There nrr upward of 100 Ahyssiuinn
uanrfYVpaI hnrs uun there tho
procession Thcsc are 10 give MIX Tor
iho young animals. and TO serve ~ food
and ment for the old
The carnynu il on IL way through the
desert Of SuHkim, which Is the iifst ship
ping place for Europe. There ARE no
less than l2O camels IN ~ which are re-
Uiircd TO curry the food for this caravan,
aud there are upward Of 100 drivers IN
the procession. II takes the caravans
upwnfd Of thirty-six days 10 cover the
distauce which lies between Shssala IN
the interior Of Nubin, and tue port OF
Snnkim, for which they are bound Ihe
same tourney IN usually performed by
quick most camcls Ia twelve days This
IL thc eXnct account nt caravan which
Karl IIngenbeck told me he brought
ncross the desert In tie year 1870
III Il Tremendously anxious work
said hc. the transportation o. these nnl-
mnls across sea aud land The amolnt
Of water which we have 10 carry WIN
us In gonts hides aud eamcls backs is
urolIrious. for nothing would be- more
awful than to run short Of Wnier 10 The
middle Of tho desert aud 20 b. sur
reminded by number " VITA hehstH,
mndlcncd with heat aud unqutnehhbls
thirst. HE principal food ipr ny 81
elephants and rlnocerosef on the way
"A Kind OF cherry Of which they nfe very
fond Girafics and nntpljres and os-
frichps are provided with The dVurha rorn
that grows In the Interior Al these
bigger animals walk. mud Us uhrY i9g
along my people feed them occasionally
with hard ship biscuit, which appears 10
sustain them well through ile journey
A 4 O'Clock every morning. the caravnn
strikes It's tents aud begins ils march.
They go plOdding along tiil ~ clock,
when the day becomes too NOT ior fur
thnF progress"
But DO the animals never attempt 20
esrapcT' | said.
beck ''hut." he added WIN = helfiY
inugh Of recollection. II remember auce
that IN the very year Of 1910 Of which
/ have just been telling ynnf Nif Nhpir OF
the ostrirhes, twentysx ~ number, ran
away just as we were seilpk ihen. lhtY
the railway station OF snnkln. Away
they went hendimg strnleht for the
5es..ff never wns IN surl q dreadful
fix 10 my life. AZ last u struck NE tlni
h would be good plan 20 drive All tie
rnats ma canps toward them; we did
n. mud when the ostiicles saw them adj
vaucine tlsy formed themselves inio q
fldrk aud We drove the whole l9t int'' ne
station. The binds were caught one ~
one aud pht into the cars iiipt was me
la, transport. ~ the bye, that poor Nnr'
sannva ever brought over lndflI. M
aid az Alcxan,iiia ~ The very midst 81
no whole business. aud We hnried him
on the evening Of bis death. IL was a
dreadful time and everything appeared %
b. against rs, for ~ che moment Of hiH
dpalh, Just as we wcrn gciiing ne ant
mails on board ship, d fearful eHrlhlnnAe
shook the whole laih.
II thought there was soineihiag about