CHAPTER XII 



ZOOLOGISCHEE, GARTEN, AIX-LA-CHAPELLE (aACHEN) : 

 DIRECTOR, AUG. BAST 



This Garden was founded in 1886 by Sir Emil Lochner, 

 and his widow is now proprietress. 



On paying twenty pfennig one is confronted by a 

 large, handsome concert-hall with glass roof and sides, 

 with pretty beds of tuhps in front of it. At first I 

 could find no animals, although I found several 

 empty cages and pens. At length, however, I came 

 upon a deer house with outside enclosure, containing, 

 amongst others, a pair of wapiti about half grown. 

 Close by it was a bear den built like a castle, and con- 

 taining a brown and a polar bear ; in two other pens 

 close at hand were a pair of white goats and a pretty 

 roe deer. What, apparently, had been an antelope shed 

 now housed two monkeys and some parrots. There 

 was rather a nice lion house, but there was not a single 

 animal in it. There was a llama pen inhabited by one 

 llama, and a pheasant house and a duck lake finished 

 a very disappointing show, considering the accommoda- 

 tion and possibilities of the place. 



To add to the enjoyment of my visit to the Garden, 

 I was caught in a snowstorm there. May 7. 



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