LAMMERT BROS.
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AUCTIONEERS, APPRAISERS
AND SURVETORS, I
Public Auctions-
THE Undersigned have received 10-
Traces and WINS, THORES IN &Co., to sell by Public Auction
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TUESDAY, the 18th May, 1920, at 3 p.m.
at his Salos Rooms, Duddell Street, The Steamer. "DAGMAR"
as she now lies in the Alecau River, Bangkok, with all her machinery, gear and appurtenances, etc.
1437 tona groes Reg.
021 tons.net Beg.
1800 tons deulweight capacity on
17 feet mean draft. Speed 10 knots.
This Steamer want ashore in the Gulf of Sion, was salveland towed to Bangkok, where she was dry-docked sad patched up..
Inspection orders on application to the East Asiatic Co., Ltd., "Bangkok.
The Steamer to be at purchaser's risk tar fall of hammer, when purchase money is to be paid..
For full particulars apply to
LAMMERT BROS,
Auctioneer.
or
MESS, THORESEN & 0),
Hongkong.
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WILD ANIMALS.
FURTHER SECRETS OF UNKNOWN SOUTH AFRICA.
FOREST_LIFE.
When the pigmy negroes from the forests of the Upper Congo were shown round the Zoological Gardens some twelve or more years ago, they evinced the greatest excitement at sight of the zebras, and, brandishing their assegaies, ejaculated, Okapi, okapi!"
least realising the scientific interest of the species.
In the forest the pigmies pointed to the spoor of a large cloven-hoofed animal and pronounced it to be the foot tracks of the okapi; but strongly was Sir Harry Johnston pre possessed with the idea that the affinities of the okapi lay with the solid-footed zebras, and net with the cleft-footed antelopes, that he re- jected this testimony of the proximity of the creature he had come so far. and suffered so much to seek.
FOREST-LIFE CONDITIONS.
PROGRESS AT SEATTLE:
More than $2,000,000 worth of water-borne commerce passed over the shares of Seattle for each day in the year 1919 according to re ports of the ports warden, The total commerce handled in the port for the year amounted to $750,079,007. This is about $50,000,000 more chan the shipping experts of the Pacific Coast bad predicted would 20 through the port.
Jast
shows that the after-war slump A study of the monthly reports began in April but was completely August. In the last four months of overcome by the closing weeks of the year a gain was shown of $5,499,765 as compared with the same period in 1918.
These experts based their estimates But it was not until the autumn of on the fact that a slump was un- The error was quite intelligible, the present year that a young speci-avoidable in 1919 as a result of the says Mr. R. 1. Pocock, F. R. 5, in men of the okapi, presented to the ending of hostilities in Europe. It Conquest, Dwelling themselves in King of the Belgians, was brought was expected by them that com- the fastness of the forest, they had alive to Europe and deposited in the merce would decrease early never met with zebras, which live in gardens at Antwerp. The capture spring and that this would continue Africa only in the open plains and of other calves, it is true, had been throughout the year.. mountains. Very naturally, "there- reported from time to time; but all fore, they mistook the zebras in aur died before being exported from menagerie for the big, striped, large. Africa, probably from the Impossi- eared ungulate quadruped, known to bility of giving them proper atten them as a okapi, which for generation under conditions indescribably tions their tribe had bunted and difficult for white men to deal with trapped in its native forest home. The Antwerp specimen lived but a As attested by the remarkable story few weeks after its arrival The of the discovery of the okapi, those exact cause of its death is unknown little people were anticipated by to ua; but since many of its internal off occurred were April, May, June, The months in which the falling Englishmen of sclence in confusing organs were diseased, it is not July and August. This was due to the two African animals, with the unlikely that it paid the penalty for the difference that the black savages in being artificially reared by hand from and cargo
readjustment of shipping verted the idea of the white men who its earliest days, instead of being left world-wide requirements. A num- movements to meet for a long while considered the okapi for six months under the care of its ber of Japanese freighters were to be a species of forest zebra.
In the appendix to Stanley's "In
withdrawn during those months and There is no occasion to be discoursent to Atlantic trade routes. Then Darkest Africa" It was stated that the aged by the failure that has so far the United States Shipping Board, forest dwarfs of the Uppper Congo met all attempts to keep young okapi began filling up the gaps with were acquainted with a large animal, alive a reasonable length of time. American vessels. On top of this like a donkey, which they were ac Scores of young ungulates die after many freighters of the Oriental fines customed to trap in pitfalls. This capture in Africa; but, being com are again being assigned to the paragraph so stimulated Sir Harry mon, unadvertised animals, nothing Seattle route. Johnston's interest that he determin- is heard of their fate. There is at
mother.
ed to institute inquiries, should fate present no proof, nor indeed any four months of 1919 show that The remarkable gairs of the last ever lead him to that part of Africa. good reason to think, that the okapt Seattle again has definitely turned His subsequent appointment as is more delicate than the giraffe or the corner and is once more speeding. Special Commissioner to the Uganda | any of the African antelopes; and its ahead in both foreign and domestic Protectorate gave him the chance exhibition in the gardens of Europe commerce, he longed for, and he was not slow or America is assuredly but a ques to avail himself of it. Guided by ation of time. party of pigmies, whom he had res But popular 'impressions are hard cued from a German press-gang and to kill, and it will be years before the existence in that largely unex wished to restore to their native the idea that the okapl is a com- plored region of some big unclassi haunts, he made his way into the posite creature, half zebra, half an-fied beast have come to hand sufi. forests of the Semliki, gathering the telope, dies a natural death. In has ciently often to have gained several while, information about this practi- | no kinship whatever with the horse converts to a belief in its reality, cally unknown animal, not only from tribe, but is the antelope-like ances The late Carl Hagenbeck, an animal the black dwarfs of the Belgian tor of the giraffe, slowing that the dealer of wide experience, accustom Congo, who for years had been emiatter was origically fitted for forested, in the interests of his business, ploying native hunters to bring them life and acquired its preposterous to sift fact from fiction in travel carcases of the okapi, without in the length of neck and limb as it became lera' tales, was firmly convinced of gradually adapted to existence in the truth of these reports. He even more open country where there was maintained that the creature in ques AS GOOD FOR YOUR WIFE trees. No creature with the build of of the so-called Dinosaurus, which room to move amongst the scattered tion was a great reptile, a descendant AS FOR YOURSELF. a giraffe could make headway amid according to geological evidence, died They are for the fami'yare Pia-interlacing boughs, Intertwined without at the close of the Secondary kotton, Leing so mild gat rare in action forest creepers but the okapi can Epoch and gave the mammalia their as to exactly meet the needs of both slip beneath them, unimpeded and chance of evolution. That opinion exes from childhood to old age.
silently retreat when warned by its does not commend itself on the score. kectness of hearing of an enemy's of probability. The beast, it it be approach: Kor those great ears have an objective reality, is most likely been developed to compensate for an ungulate mammal, and since the restricted-range of vision imposed meagre data do no more than justify. by the foliage and gloom of its that tentative opinion, the wisest habitat.
course la to keep an open mind on the subject, never forgetting the truth of the adage, from Africa there always comes something new,
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