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The animals were unloaded from the ship Moltkefels, about 

 half of them carried to the Zoo and the other half were shipped to 

 Washington direct. The lions, the birds, the zebra and the leopard 

 went South, and not without complaint. A pair of hartebeests, a 

 pair of elands, a long-haired and serious-looking w^aterbuck and a 

 very sinister looking warthog all went to the Zoo. 



R. D. Carson, superintendent of the Zoological Garden, was on 

 hand to receive the consignment, which arrived in the teeth of a 

 very untropical gale. 



The animals came on a wagon which was covered with tar- 

 paulin. It had been planned to put them into the antelope house, 

 out of which some kangaroos had been unceremoniously ejected. 

 The atmosphere of the antelope house felt decidedly more like the 

 African uplands in the vicinity of Nairobi than did the air without. 

 There were within the house several specimens of game from the 

 regions whence the visitors came. There was no evidence, how- 

 ever, that they gave them welcome. 



ANIMALS NEAR AKIN. 



The wildebeests, which would seem from the name to be allied 

 to the hartebeests, seemed to be bored by the proceedings of un- 

 loading their country kin. There was also an eland within the 

 house, which paid no attention to the arrival of the two other 

 elands. 



But the seal in the pond adjacent to the antelope barked harshly 

 and seemed to take pride in showing the visitors how he could swim. 

 And two kangaroos, which occupied an adjoining cage to the wart- 

 hog, looked on w ith an apparent great curiosity. 



The first of the visitors to set foot literally in America was a 

 female hartebeeste, which was so scared that it did not know how 

 to get out of the box when the door was opened. When she finally 

 found her way into the wooden floored cage she looked about upon 

 the crowd and lost no time in getting down to the diet of old- 

 fashioned American hay, which ma}- liave been meant for a bed or 

 food, according to the mood of the animal. 



