136 THE ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS OF EUROPE 



including a specimen of the brown hyaena, rarely seen 

 in zoologfical collections. 



A remarkably fine elephant house contained a large 

 African elephant, two Indian elephants, two black-and- 

 white tapirs from Sumatra (the first I had seen in 

 captivity), and two hippopotami together in a huge 

 tank. But the animal for which this Garden is justly 

 famous is the huge black-faced ape, known as the 

 gorilla from West Africa, the only known specimen in 

 captivity in the world. Curiously enough, this price- 

 less animal was purchased from England. What a 

 pity it did not find its way into our London Zoo ! 

 Since writing the above, Herr Carl Hagenbeck of Ham- 

 burg informs me that he is expecting a young gorilla, 

 which has been caught for him in West Africa. The 

 ape is housed in a large and lofty cage with glass front 

 in the monkey house. I should say it was quite 

 young, and not yet half grown. It was not parti- 

 cularly lively on the occasion of my visit, but spent 

 its time in picking its nose and staring at the huge 

 crowd. 



There was an amusing chimpanzee in the next cage, 

 and close by some large baboons. The exterior of this 

 monkey house is very prettily built and decorated. 

 The next house of importance is the antelope house, 

 containing brindled gnus, water-buck, nylgai, zebras, 

 camels, asses, and Shetland ponies. In the centre of 

 the Garden, as usual, there was a band-stand sur- 

 rounded by countless seats, not far from a restaurant. 

 Here a good band played all the afternoon, and the 

 crowd round it was large. There were the usual sheds 

 for American buffaloes (I wush I had counted how many 



