242 THE ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS OF EUROPE 



I saw the hosts in the lagoons in Egypt. There were 

 some 60 cranes and storks, 100 water-fowl, 50 swans, 

 and 50 various birds. There were 50 deer of various 

 sorts, 18 antelopes, 22 buffaloes, yaks, and zebus, 3 

 zebras, 2 camels and a dromedary, 8 llamas and 

 guanacos, and some Shetland ponies. There were 

 three sorts of water-buffalo from the Caucasus, Siam, 

 and Egypt. 



There was a female white deer, presented to Hagen- 

 beck by the German Emperor. There were some of 

 the rare Dobowsky's deer, found only in the possession 

 of the Duke of Bedford. There was a pair of brindled 

 gnus, taken in exchange from Dr. Sclater. There 

 were Caucasian deer, axis deer, Sambur deer, and 

 wapiti deer. There was an enormous dromedary from 

 Russian Turkestan, the largest species of its race. 

 There were Siberian roe-deer with enormous horns as 

 big as our red deer's. There was an Alcal sheep from 

 Russian Turkestan, and two sorts of ibex (one very 

 tall) from Central Siberia. These animals, Hagenbeck 

 says, will be found to be new to science, also one from 

 the Pamir district, price £100 ! Hundreds of packing- 

 cases, from one which held a rabbit to another Avhich 

 carried an elephant and her baby, filled a whole field. 

 In the surrounding fields grazed llamas, yaks, and 

 camels, where one would expect to find domestic sheep 

 and cows. 



' And here, I su2')pose, in two years' time we shall 

 see half a dozen okapi grazing V I suggested. 



At last I had beaten Hagenbeck, for he shook his 

 head, and answered : 



' They are hard to get — very hard to get !' 



