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the curious yellow-coloured horse now to he seen in our 

 London Garden. Carl Hagenbeck informed me that 

 these animals were caught in three different districts 

 south of the Mongolian town of Kobdo, near the Altai 

 Mountains. The horses travelled twenty days to 

 Kobdo, and ninety - five days from Kobdo to the 

 Siberian Railway, so that by the time they reached 

 Europe they must have had about enough travelling. 



MOOSE YARD, MOSCOW. 



The foals are caught with slings on long sticks by the 

 Mongols, a number of whom gallop down upon a large 

 herd at a given signal. When caught they are fed by 

 Mongol mares, which act as their foster-mothers. 



There were signs of great activity going on in this 

 Garden, houses of various sorts being in course of con- 

 struction in every direction, including a good new set 



