And this fellow was half (indistinct), half Caucasian, and he had many ties here with the Bronx Zoo, and he brought the first koalas and the first platypus. Platypus died, I think, I believe it never got here, but the koalas did get here and not very long, here being New York back in those days. And in 1916, two years after Ben Hollinger had become, essentially established the zoo in Kapi’olani Park, the animal owner dealer, Joseph, came through with a load of animals from Sydney going to Vancouver on a ship. And on that ship was some birds that Ben Hollinger, the supervisor, essentially the first director of the zoo here in Honolulu had ordered some Australian cranes, some Australian black swans, cockatoos, but on that ship also, was a young African elephant. And Ben Hollinger was an eager, assertive young man. And he saw that African elephant, and the one day the ship was here when he went aboard her. He negotiated very rapidly and very heavily with its owner. And Joseph had trained this animal to carry people on her back.
