CHAPTER XXIV 



ZOOLOGISCHER GARTEN, POSEN, FOUNDED IN 1881 : 

 DIRECTOR, HERR JACKEL 



After entering this Garden, I passed rows and rows 

 of chairs and little tables in front of a large restaurant, 

 but for a long time I was unable to find any animals. 

 However, at length I saw a small gate, through which 

 I passed, carefully refusing to look at a notice about 

 photographs, lest I might be able to understand what 

 I read. The first set of cages contained jackals and an 

 amusing pair of Himalayan bears. The next house, a 

 very old and dilapidated one, held black, brown, and 

 polar bears, after which came the lion house, with 

 large outdoor cages, containing a good collection. I 

 had just succeeded in taking photographs of a few of 

 the inmates, when a man appeared, and, by a good deal 

 of talk and gesticulation made me to understand that 

 photographing the animals was not allowed ; so for 

 the third time I was obliofed to close the camera 

 shutters. 



There was an aquarium in a dark rock-work dungeon, 

 but the number of fish in the tanks with cracked glass 

 fronts was small. This dungeon seemed to contain a 

 very miscellaneous collection ; there was a stuffed 

 ant-eater in a dark corner and some living mice in 



