2-981-985 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Prince's Voyage Home from India: life on board the Serapis: exercising the "Gainees", from a sketch by an officer of the Serapis, 1876. The future King Edward VII brings animals to England on the HMS 'Serapis'. 'The "gainees", a miniature kind of oxen, not much bigger than a calf, were two white bulls, which had their daily exercise on the upper deck. These fellow-passengers were the source of much amusement to the officers and crew of the Serapis, as well as to the Royal party, on the voyage across the Indian Ocean and up the Red Sea'. From "Illustrated London News", 1876.