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a fine band was playing when I visited the Garden. 

 From the top of a high arch of rockwork a view of the 

 whole Garden can be obtained, but there are so many- 

 trees in it that the view is somewhat disappointing. 

 There is a large and handsome antelope and camel 

 house, with dome and minarets, containing Shetland 

 ponies, camels, zebus, white- tailed gnus, an Oryx 

 leucoryx, black buck, an ostrich, a rhea, some donkeys, 

 a zebra, a roan antelope, and a Cape hartebeest, the 

 last two rarely seen in collections — in fact, the Cape 

 hartebeest is the first I saw on the Continent. He 

 was very nervous and restless, and utterly refused to 

 stand still to be photographed. A lion house contained 

 two remarkably fine lions. 



It is curious how wonderfully well lions thrive in 

 captivity and what fine manes they grow. I have 

 seen several lions in the African jungle, but not one 

 had a mane to compare with those carried by menagerie 

 beasts. This is accounted for partly because in a cage 

 there is no thorn-bush to tear the hair, and partly 

 because the food is better and more regular, causing 

 less mange in the skin. Besides lions there were 

 leopards, pumas, cheetahs, a black leopard, and some 

 tiny bear-cubs in the lion house. In a house built 

 just like a church with a steeple was a huge Asiatic 

 elephant, a smaller elephant, and a hippopotamus. 

 Pens of yak and American bison, several deer, dogs, 

 and wolves, and a parrot house brought a very interest- 

 ing collection to a close. 



Crowds of people watched the animals, listened to 

 the band, or drank cofiee in the restaurant, the ex- 

 tremely pretty uniforms of numbers of soldiers adding 

 to the picturesqueness of the scene. 



