HOW CURIOSITIES AKw CAPTURED. 



the grass by a rock just off yonder, and I've been waiting two hours vo ge, 

 chance to shoot the parents before making off with the youngsters." 



The reader will readily understand the methods by which the professional 

 hunters secure most of the wild animals for the menageries. They have sent some 

 of the most experienced sportsmen living, into the heart of the least known and 

 most inaccessible regions of the globe, where they have been lost to their own kind 

 for months. Sometimes, sad to say, they are lost forever. 



Two of the best hunters ever known penetrated the dismal wilderness of interior 

 Australia, mainly in 

 quest of the kanga- 

 roo, which is found 

 there or in the neigh- 

 boring islands. This 

 was more than 

 twelve years ago, 

 since which time 

 nothing has been 

 heard of them, and 

 there is little doubt 

 that they fell victims 

 to the many dan- 



fatal to scores 

 of explorers be 

 lore them. 



SHIPS OF THE DESERT. 



Parties have gone into the mountains and table lands of Thibet, and hardly a 

 year has passed for a generation that a company has not departed from Suakem 

 or Massowah for the more salubrious climate of interior Abyssinia. These hunters 

 always use camels, for it is impossible to employ any other means of conveyance. 



The young that are captured are brought back on these " ships of the desert." 

 Many of you remember the young hippopotamus which was on exhibition some 

 years ago. It was secured in the Upper Nile region and carried aU the. way to 

 Suakem, on the African coast of the Red Sea, suspended in a hammock between 



