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Full Title	Frank Leslie's New York Journal of Romance, General Literature, Science and Art, New Series, v. 1, part 5, May 1855, [Incomplete].
Date Added	9 January 2014
Format	Newspaper
Language	English
Publish Date	1855-05
Publisher	New York : Frank Leslie
Source	Dime Novel and Popular Literature
Topic	Popular literature > Specimens. Story papers > Specimens.
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Disclaimers	Disclaimer of Liability Disclaimer of Endorsement

OCR __ FRANK. LESLIE'S /NEW,-YORK JOURNAL, _ : i ] . ...| The specimens, during the, passage to England, re-| take an interest in the zoology of different latitudes |Tuz pair of animals’ portrayed ‘upon’ this’ page | cognised such persons as were kind to them ;' they | will be glad to discover a fresh instance of the mar- were'captured on the Island of Desolation, south of | did not eat throughout the voyage.’ °°’ '«'“: | vellous instinct with which those gigantic animals the Cape ‘of Good' Hope; when. caught, they were |?" 098) f= 8c 2) eee | ave endowed. > * Major had a splendid ele- between four and five weeks old; at thirteen weeks, ©’ Extraordinary Deatal Operation. » - + | phant, of a most extraordinary temper; no one save they‘ weighed‘ nearly three hundred’ weight > each; | Perwaps few animals in the vast creation of God| its keeper and the Major's little boy, of six years but the Elephant Seal, when full grown, sometimes | manifest more ‘remarkable attachment to man than| old, could approach it with :mpunity.’. The keeper weighs five tons, and upwards; hence. its name, ‘as | does the mighty elephant; its sagacity is wonderful, | one day rercarked that the poor creature looked ill, well‘as'from the “oo Uf hoe aa Bene go ad oar yg! Leper beat its head a- Se eo :_ ‘Sea Elephants,” or Elephant Seals. wor > - long, ‘this .enor- ° short’ / proboscis with which’ the ‘ full-grown” male ,- is provided.’ Mr, Lizars “ remarks :’ |. ~ «Compared with any ordinary seal; |” three or four feet pared to a sheep.” When a flock re- pose onthe shore, some of them keep * watch,” and,’ if alarmed, down to _ the ‘sea they go. Their gait is very,’ singular; . | their. motion being, a y kind of crawling, |’ during _ “which .: their. body trem-" , bles, like'a great. * bag of jelly, “At , the end,of the | third’ year, ‘they ,| are stated to attain a length of from 18 to 265 feet; and.” upwards, : when theyincrease prin- cipally in fatness. | Weddell, in his ° «Voyage towards , ;. the South: Pole.” says! “It is curi- ous to remark that the Sea Elephant, :' when lyingwn the «: shore, and threat- 7: / ened with’ death, - will’ often make *:. no effort to escape’ * into: the « water, > + but: lie still and =! shed * tears,’ only *!: ; raising * its’ head ’ to look at the as- sailants; and tho’ »- very ‘timid, will | - wait with compo- *: sure the club or’ < the ‘lance which ‘- takes its life! «In: : close’ *: contact, **’ every: human ef.) fort: would be: of * 't° little avail for the 1° < destruction of this animal, unwieldy’ as it is, were it'to rush forward and exeit’ the power of its ‘jaws; for this’ is so7enor- ! *- mous, that, in the agonies of death, ‘+ + stones are ground to powder in its, teeth. | The. . Elephant ever, .a, harmless race, never attack. ..< », ing man unlessin . 5 defence of them- |. selves. and ‘their _ young.: One: of. , Anson’s ._ sailors fn > ut Seals. are, how-...,... . . Pa ey - St ah. Sees lost: his life by exasperating a mother, in. whose, and a,tendency to stro Hd] ‘, uy . ng likings, und contrariwise presence he skinned her young one, .: But their dis- | antipathies, is a striking feature in :the hi f position is affectionate and gentle; and a young one, | this ‘noble animal. » An’ anecdote of. a very kine petted by an English seaman, became go attached to| elephant, in. the. possession of an English officer at is master from kind treatment for a-few months, that, it would come to his call, gllow, him to. mount | authority, and we give i : it ‘ Y, . give it to our readers nearly yer< upon its back, and put his hands jnto its mouth. | batim as it was told us, in the belief that those who Lo rete Calcutta, was related to us on perfectly credible | - i 3 gainst its, house, -* and refused food. >», Askilful surgeon, belonging to the ~: Major's regiment, ~ being asked:! to os look at the suffer- ing ‘creature, did “so, and pronounc- “ed 'that a decayed tooth was the ori- Ji © gin of its suffer- -i +*ing;: then came the question how “sit could« be’ ex- »" +traeted ? We think Cartwright: him- ' self-would have “been puzzled, had such a case come * under his cogniz- “ance. At last itwas sugyested that a ~ *" sharp instrument, «J like a carpenter's chisel,! must «be ‘ ~ obtained ; the ele- ‘“phant ‘was made to lie down, anda firm mallet, wield- ed ‘by a ‘strong - > ‘hand, ‘urged’ the “ chisel under the ’ “root of ‘the tooth, _., and‘ thus split’ it “* out. \' The saga- cious creature was “soon laid down, _; but at® the first blow of the mal- Jet on the chisel it arose ‘in anger, its ¢.bellowings ‘ringing, fearfully through the en- closure, . What was tobe done? ‘Little Massa sit upon his head,’ said the ; keeper ; and, nothing loth, ) €little Massa? got j upon the head of ; ;. his: favorite, the * (-/mallet and chisel ‘s-went to work, and, although the groanings ‘of the } as. <1 Poor, fellow .were ,,; touching to ,hear,. at the’ end of a ,» quarter ofan hour -, the, huge tooth 5. yielded to, ’, the stalwart. efforts of. :,, the operator, , Lit-. , v.tle . Massa:, dis- . mounted from his “throne, , and . the elephant, . -, freed ; ) from its agonising , tormentor, evinc- ed his joy by tak- ing up: his. liutle , favorite and plac-» ing him: on this. 5 » back.” For aught) «,iwe know to the « Contrary, the sa- : , gacious «. creature : is still alive; and:7 the little boy, who i: ~ ants betes sat switch in hand to chastise the slightest move-:* ment of the head, while the surgical operation was going- on, -still possesses cleverly extracted. tata et ' + 2% Ch 7 eee ted é | Tuoven authority be a'stubborn bear, yet he is oft Jed by the nose with gold. :;) 3:5 <0) ah ytasile the offending «i 7 _the offending ‘ivory: £0” 7