CHAPTER V

My second visit to America. A caravan journey across the prairies and the Rockies from New York to San Francisco. My experiences with Red Indians. A novel treatment of fever. Performances at San Francisco, Java and Australia. Return to New York. A “spiritualistic” swindle. Am engaged by Barnum, Bailey and Hutchinson. The baby elephant born in the show becomes my playmate. An elephant’s wonderful memory. My mysterious mission to Paris under “sealed orders.” What the sealed letter contained--instructions to buy “Jumbo.” Agitation in London over the proposed sale of the big elephant. The Zoological Society accept Barnum’s offer. Proceedings in Chancery. The matter settled. “Jumbo’s” opposition. The true story of the delay. A mishap to his car.