1 66 THE ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS OF EUROPE 



of bear cages for the fine collection of these animals, 

 which have now to be housed separately in various parts 

 of the Garden. Passing a moose yard, with a North 

 American Indian wooden shed, we mount up to a com- 

 paratively new house on a bank, and find within two 

 Indian tusker elephants, one of which is the largest 

 Indian elephant in Europe. It is very old, and there 

 is a great deal of white about the head and trunk, the 

 latter being very short in comparison with the immense 

 body. Ten years ago it grew very savage^ and has 

 since then killed two men. 



In this Garden are to be seen specimens of the 

 Russian bison [Bos honassus) ; a herd, now reduced to 

 500, is protected by the Czar in Lithuania, Russia. 

 When I asked an ofiicial if it was j^ossible to get per- 

 mission to shoot one, he said it would be cheaper to 

 kill a man. ' It would cost you,' he added, ' three 

 years' hard labour, with a fine of 800 roubles to kill a 

 bison ; whereas, if you kill a man, it costs you only 

 three years in Siberia, without any fine whatever.' 



There were the usual concert-houses and restaurants. 

 The Garden contains some quaintly built houses, and 

 there are plenty of duck-ponds, trees, and grass to 

 help to make it pretty. 



As I had to await permission from the police (I was 

 not ' wanted ') to leave Russia, I was enabled to spend 

 a second day in this curious and out-of-the-corner 

 Garden. Here could be seen people out of every 

 country in Europe, mixed up with natives of (-hina, 

 Thibet, Mongolia, Russian Turkestan, Russian Siberia, 

 and other Asiatic races. I chanced upon the younger 

 son of Herr Carl Hagenbeck, the great animal importer 

 of Hamburg, Avho liad just arrived with some American 



