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[February 21st 2006] Publication history First published in the Civil and Military Gazette, 30 March 1889. Collected Volume V, No. 37 of Turn-overs, 1889, and in Abaft the Funnel (Unauthorised and Authorised Editions), 1909. (Story No. 1). In the Sussex and Burwash editions, the story was re-titled €œOne Lady at Large€. The story The Captain of the Madura relates an anecdote about one of his voyages when he was transporting a menagerie €œ€”a whole turnout, lock, stock, and barrel, from the big bear to the little hippopotamus; . . .€ One of the sixteen giraffes which were up on deck, broke free during the night and first put its head through the window of the Captain€™s cabin whilst he was asleep before eventually withdrawing it and then trying to climb over the stern rail. The quartermaster saved it by hauling on its tail. |