The Furnessia,' of the Anchor Line, arrived in the Thames
on Thursday with Mr. Barnum's new and enormous menagerie. In ten days' voyage, only four animals had died,—two horses, an ibex, and a monkey. Yet there were 200 horses, 16 elephants, 13 camels, 30 zebras, mules, and ponies, and between 20 and 30 buffaloes and cows, several polar bears and hippopotamuses, 4 lions and 3 cubs, a tiger, and a yak (or Arctic bull), besides a vast number of smaller animals. The graminivorous animals were provisioned with 100 tons of hay, 2,000 bushels of corn, 5,000 bushels of oats, and a large quantity of roots. It is not often that a ship of 6,000 tons has such a strange assortment of passengers. The only accident appears to have been that the yak broke three ribs through a fall down the hold in being shipped. It would be interesting to know which of the travellers suffered from sea-sickness, and which were exempt from that curious disturbance of the nerves, and how soon the sufferers succeeded in getting their sea-legs on. The yak is said to be the only really new contribution to our zoological collection.
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