Eat your heart out Stephen Maturin!

[anteros_lmc]

Over the weekend, while looking for a reference to something completely unrelated, I came across this fabulous snippet in the 1809 Sporting Magazine.

A beautiful male tiger, a tigercat, several sheep from the Cape of Good Hope, a land and sea tortoise, together with many other oriental quadrupeds, brought home by Sir Edward Pellew, were landed

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[ioanite]

It's impressive that Pellew managed to get the Tortoise back to England alive, considering...well, check this out:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wapX3uz-dtI&feature=related

[xandri]

AWESOME AWESOME AWESOME, and I totally LOL'd at the last bit.

[anteros_lmc]

Agreed. AWESOME :) Look out for Indy appearing in an esmerelda_t crackfic near you in the new year!

[anteros_lmc]

Sloth icon! <3

IT IS TRUE. esmerelda_t unreliably informs me that Indy will be making his crack fic debut in the spring once he wakens up from hibernation.

[mylodon]

The sheep? Easy. The tiger ate them.

[anteros_lmc]

*gasp* Bartholomew will not be pleased! He is very partial to lamb chops.

[charliecochrane]

I have a wonderful book about the Menagerie at the Tower. It mentions a tiger being there in 1821 - I wonder if it's the same one?

[anteros_lmc]

Ooh it might be! Does it say if it's a white tiger?

[charliecochrane]

No, just says tiger. The menagerie dwindled a lot in the early years of the nineteenth century.

[anteros_lmc]

Awww what a shame. I hope the tiger didn't get lonely. Perhaps Lord H and Mr K took Indy the tortoise to visit him during the holidays :)