3-086-447 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Burmese baby-elephant, forty-three inches high: the smallest ever brought to England, 1898. 'Zoological Curiosities. A baby Burmese elephant, which has claims to be considered the smallest of its kind ever brought to this country, has recently arrived at Liverpool. The interesting youngster stands only forty-three inches high, and is about the size of a well-grown sheep. Like its kind, it is extremely intelligent, and, being youthful, it adds to intelligence a quality which in elephants savours of the grotesque - playfulness. This noteworthy addition to a local menagerie has been christened "Princess," after the Princess of Wales, an honour entirely in the elephant's favour. The baby was none the worse for its voyage of forty days from Burma.' From "Illustrated London News", 1898.