CHAPTER VIII 



ZOOLOGISK HAVE, COPENHAGEN 



The Zoological Garden in Copenhagen was founded in 

 1859 by Dr. Kjaerblling. It is a quaint Garden, 

 situated by the side of a large park. On paying fifty 

 ore to a pretty girl (the first pretty girl I had seen in 

 Denmark) at the entrance, I found myself opposite a 

 large duck-pond with little islands in it, upon which 

 were placed boxes for the birds to build their nests in. 

 Close by the side of the pond was a model in plaster 

 of the huge Dinoscmrus iguanodon, a kangaroo-like 

 reptile long ago extinct, a skeleton of which is to be 

 seen in the Brussels Museum. 



Near a large restaurant was placed an ingeniously 

 constructed seal tank, like an aquarium, with a thick 

 plate-glass front to enable one to see the creature 

 swimming about below the surface of the water. It 

 was amusing to watch it sitting bolt upright, with its 

 tail resting on the bottom of the tank, and its nose 

 and eyes just above the surface of the water. 



Next came a pair of water-buffalo and their baby, 

 and an American bison. In the centre of the Garden 

 was a pheasant pen, and a very large aviary with trees 

 growing in it, upon the top of which herons built their 

 nests. There were many duck and fowl aviaries, some 



