Excerpt from Her Ladyship's ElephantAnd the history of his acquirement by the Consul, as hereinafter set forth, is the truth ful narration of an actual experience, one of many episodes, stranger than fiction, which went to form the warp and woof of my diplo matic experience.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.