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price of admission to the Gardens is one franc for 

 adults and fifty centimes for children under twelve 

 years. The lions are fed at 5 p.m. in summer, 4 p.m. 

 in winter, and the otters at 11 a.m. and 4 p.m. 



A grand entrance to the Gardens, to replace the 

 present provisional one, is under consideration. On 

 entering, one sees on the left the Grand Palais des 

 Fetes, opened in 1897 in the presence of His Majesty 

 King Leopold II. The Palais, which cost 1,300,000 

 francs, contains a terrace and balcony, a restaurant, a 

 cafe and billiard-rooms, a vast promenade, a marble 

 saloon, a great concert-hall to seat 3,000, a vestibule 

 and grand staircase, and a winter garden ; and in three 

 large rooms is a natural history museum. Opposite 

 the Palais des Fetes is a wide open space covered with 

 seats grouped round a central band-stand. 



The collection of animals and birds in these Zoological 

 Gardens is one of the finest in Europe, and the Gardens 

 are especially famous for their hippopotami, which have 

 frequently bred there. The first house we come to is 

 the monkey house, with cleverly constructed doors to 

 keep the draught out. Here is a specimen of the 

 orang-outang from Borneo, a chacma, and a chim- 

 panzee. 



We next come to the dairy, constructed in the 

 ' Renaissance flamandi ' style. The stalls contain 

 twelve cows, which, before being brought in, are 

 submitted to the ' tuberculin ' test ; if they pass it, 

 their milk is certified free from all infectious germs. 

 The price of milk is twenty cents the glass, ' guaranteed 

 pure and not skimmed.' 



We now come to prettily thatched kangaroo sheds, 



