In Search of Jimba

Here are excerpts from an article on "Jumbo" from www.wikepedia.com. It is evident that this is not the elphant named Jimba that I wrote of before, if there ever was such an elephant. Jumbo (1861 - September 15, 1885) was an African elephant, born in 1861 in the French Sudan from where he was imported to France . . . In 1865 he was transferred to the London Zoo, where he became famous for giving rides to visitors. It was the London zoo-keepers that gave Jumbo his name — it is a slightly garbled version of the word jambo, which is Swahili for "hello". Jumbo was sold in 1882 to P. T. Barnum, owner of "The Greatest Show on Earth", the Barnum & Bailey Circus. Estimated to be 3.25 metres high in the London Zoo, it was claimed that Jumbo was approximately 4 metres tall by the time of his death. Jumbo died at a train station in St. Thomas, Ontario, Canada, where he was crushed by a locomotive. A statue now at the site commemorates the tragedy . . . As a result of Barnum's publicity the word "jumbo" is now synonymous with "large" or "huge": a large hot dog sausage may be called a "jumbo hot dog"; the Boeing 747 is known as the "Jumbo Jet".