Sarah was one of the three female elephants of the colonial army’s elephant transport in Aceh — with Agam the male and her fellow female elephants Isah and Rimba. In Oost-Indisch Journael by Merac (1947), Sarah is one of the four elephants — “Agam, the male, and Isah, Sarah, and Rimba, the female elephants” — that were disposed of in the time when the narrator was detached there.
The Female Elephants and the European Zoo
“The future of the two other female elephants was also a European zoo.” The future of the two other female elephants (besides the one sent to Medan) was also a European zoo — that is, the female elephants were sent to European zoos when the elephant transport was abolished.
Significance
Sarah is significant in Oost-Indisch Journael as one of the three female elephants of the elephant transport. The book’s argument — that the female elephants were sent to European zoos when the elephant transport was abolished — is the book’s marker of the end of the old days’ elephant transport.
See Also
Source
Oost-Indisch Journael: Palaver om de tafel met het gat, by Merac, Toekan-Serie no. 2, ed. G. L. Tichelman (Haarlem: De Gulden Pers, 1947), chapter Atjeh’s Transport-Olifanten
Sarah was one of the three female elephants of the colonial army’s elephant transport in Aceh — with Agam the male and her fellow female elephants Isah and Rimba. In Oost-Indisch Journael by Merac (1947), Sarah is one of the four elephants — “Agam, the male, and Isah, Sarah, and Rimba, the female elephants” — that were disposed of in the time when the narrator was detached there.
The Female Elephants and the European Zoo
“The future of the two other female elephants was also a European zoo.” The future of the two other female elephants (besides the one sent to Medan) was also a European zoo — that is, the female elephants were sent to European zoos when the elephant transport was abolished.
Significance
Sarah is significant in Oost-Indisch Journael as one of the three female elephants of the elephant transport. The book’s argument — that the female elephants were sent to European zoos when the elephant transport was abolished — is the book’s marker of the end of the old days’ elephant transport.
See Also
Source
Oost-Indisch Journael: Palaver om de tafel met het gat, by Merac, Toekan-Serie no. 2, ed. G. L. Tichelman (Haarlem: De Gulden Pers, 1947), chapter Atjeh’s Transport-Olifanten.