THE ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, MARSEILLES 31 



east Africa, in 1897, I captured one of these beautiful 

 cats in the mountains, but unfortunately it escaped 

 two days afterwards. The face of this animal is very 

 like that of the American puma, whilst its ears are 

 long and very pointed, and are furnished with tufts 

 of black hair at the tips. 



The second day I visited these Gardens it snowed, 

 and the light was so bad that I did not attempt to 

 take any photographs. As on my approach I found 

 nobody at the entrance-gate, I walked in. Apparently 

 there is no fixed charge, but a man usually jingles a 

 tin box before you, and you can put what you like 

 into it. I saw the Marseilles Gardens under the most 

 unfavourable circumstances ; still, on the finest day I 

 do not think anyone would be very much impressed 

 by them. The laying out of the Gardens on a bank 

 is pretty, and the rockwork and the waterfalls very 

 picturesque, but the show of animals and birds, on the 

 whole, is small and somewhat poor. 



I had a short talk with one of the keepers, a stern 

 man with a gloomy countenance and few words. I 

 did not gather much information concerning the 

 Gardens, but I raised one laugh out of him when, 

 wishing to know when the animals were fed, I asked : 

 ' A quelle heure est la table d'hote des animaux V 



