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of the latter having curious little houses with ponds in 

 front of them. There was a small cats' house, which 

 smelt abominably. This, however, is unavoidable, con- 

 taining as it does foxes, civets, polecats, wild cats, 

 servals, porcupines, wolves, jackals and two sorts of 

 hyaenas. There was a lion house with outside cages, 

 containing a pair of lions, a pair of tigers, leopards, 

 jaguars and a puma (the latter always growling). 

 Another house contained a very miscellaneous collec- 

 tion — some goats, a pair of Shetland ponies, a magnifi- 

 cent cassowary (very tame), a tapir, some Brahma 

 cattle, some wild boars, a lot of guinea-pigs, a crane, 

 two dorcas gazelle, two muntjacs, an enormous zebra, 

 and a tiny donkey. 



All the trees and shrubs in this Garden were extra- 

 ordinarily backward ; scarcely a leaf was out, and as 

 it poured with rain during the whole of my visit of 

 five hours, the outlook could scarcely be called pleasing 

 to the eye. 



There was a small house of flamingoes and storks, 

 and in an elephant house were a small Indian elephant 

 and a troupe of performing dogs and monkeys. Here 

 Herr Litz, the celebrated trainer, was performing with 

 a various assortment of animals. In the deer sheds 

 were a pair of cariboo, with a baby a few weeks old, 

 some axis and some wapiti deer. 



There were several bird-of-prey aviaries, and in 

 them some beautiful Iceland falcons. A second 

 elephant house contained an enormous Indian ele- 

 phant. A fine new series of bear pits in red brick 

 was in course of construction. But the best house in 

 the Garden was a really good and new monkey house, 



