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it ill Hamburg, charging fburpeiice admission. With 

 the proceeds he bought other animals and birds from 

 sailors who brought them home on their ships.' 



From this luimble beginning Carl Hagenbeck, by his 

 wonderful skill and knowledge of the art of keeping 

 live animals in health, has now, after having been head 

 of the business for thirty-six years, the largest stock 

 of live animals in the world. The value of his animals 

 is greater than the value of the animals in any one 

 Zoological Garden in Europe. 



' I suppose you employ a good number of people to 

 collect for you ?' I asked. 



'Yes,' he said; 'just now I have a large crowd of 

 people coming from Siberia with thirty roe-deer, fifteen 

 ibex, wild sheep, and several small animals and birds 

 for me. I have seven people collecting for me in 

 Central Asia, and one in India fetching me home 

 twenty elephants. Three of my people are in Mon- 

 golia, one in the Pamir district, one in the Altai 

 district, and one in the Arar lake district. One of my 

 men is on the road now from the Soudan, and will be 

 here the first week in June with three large giraffes, 

 some kudu, and other antelopes.' 



' The giraffes for England ?' I asked. 



' Yes,' he said ; ' the Duke of Bedford has - already 

 bought them for his park.' 



' But when are you going to import an African 

 rhinoceros V I asked. 



' Stop a moment,' Hagenbeck replied ; ' some of my 

 people, now animal-catching in German East Africa, 

 have got me already for shipment seventy zebras, two 

 African rhinos, some white-bearded gnus, water-buck 



