. St. Nicholas [serial]. key as audience, butalways with the faithful Orang at his side. After their arrival at Hamburg, Jeff taughtOrang so many tricks and exercised such aninfluence in the care of the vicious chim-panzees and baboons, as well as of the moredocile apes and South American monkeys, thathe was given certain duties in the monkey-house instead of being sent on another expedi-tion. It was finally decided that he should ac-company the monkeys on the animal-ship dur-ing their trip to the United States. Jeff namedhis pet Orang, and, jokingly, always insistedthat the captive was a real
. St. Nicholas [serial]. key as audience, butalways with the faithful Orang at his side. After their arrival at Hamburg, Jeff taughtOrang so many tricks and exercised such aninfluence in the care of the vicious chim-panzees and baboons, as well as of the moredocile apes and South American monkeys, thathe was given certain duties in the monkey-house instead of being sent on another expedi-tion. It was finally decided that he should ac-company the monkeys on the animal-ship dur-ing their trip to the United States. Jeff namedhis pet Orang, and, jokingly, always insistedthat the captive was a real boy, and he spelledhis pets name with the apostrophe, thus:ORang. The majority of the freight-ships that cometo ports of the United States from South Amer-ica, Africa, Asia, or Europe bring a few wildbeasts that have been secured in the interiorand brought to the ports at which the vesselstouched. But it is mainly at Hamburg, in Ger-many, that attempts have been made, duringrecent years, to secure regular shipments. One. BELOW DECKS ON AN ANIMAL-SHIP HOUND HOME FROM THE TROPICS the trip from the island of Borneo to ape soon learned to consider the blackboy his companion instead of his captor, andoften Jeff would be found sitting on a box onthe upper deck, scraping away at his belovedVol. XXXI.—39-40. reason is that, when consignments are desiredfor American zoos, the animals can be collectedat Hamburg and shipped free of duty. At thetime of the Worlds Fair in Chicago, Carl Ha-genbeck made some of the largest purchases of 306 THE ANIMAL-SHIP. [Feb. wild animals ever recorded for this as well as Hamburg helped to supplythe great stock of animals necessary for his Chi-cago exhibits at the Fair grounds and in NewYork. At that time there was a great revivalin the ancient industry known as the animaltrade, but during the past eight or ten years thebusiness has somewhat decreased. Hamburgis still the chief shipping center, but the animal-ships are seldom
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