MY LIFE IN THE ANIMAL TRADE 25 
the hole and thereby prevented the water from leaking into 
the boat. 
_Ukubak was a man of moderate stature and prepossessing 
countenance. His better-half, too, was far from ugly, even 
from the European’s standpoint. She was above the middle 
height, her figure was slim and elegant, and she dressed her 
hair most tastefully in a tower on the crown of her head. The 
Greenlanders made themselves at home on the spot where 
the Lapps had sojourned three years earlier, and built them- 
selves a hut after the true Eskimo fashion, namely, half under- 
ground. I should perhaps mention incidentally that the Lapps 
are not, as might be supposed, close relatives of the Eskimos. 
After the little party had been exhibited in Hamburg 
I took them to Paris, Berlin and Dresden. In Berlin the 
Emperor William I. came to see them and was greatly 
interested in Ukubak’s aquatic tricks. On that occasion 
Ukubak remained so long under the water that the Emperor 
became quite alarmed for his safety, until I told His Majesty 
the facility with which the Eskimo could always recover him- 
self when he so desired. In April of the following year, 1878, 
the Eskimos returned to their native land, greatly enriched 
by their travels. 
From this time onwards | organised frequent ethnographic 
exhibitions, and I now have some show of this kind every 
year in my Zoological Park at Stellingen. Lapps, Nubians, 
and Eskimos have been followed by Somalis, Indians, 
Kalmucks, Cingalese, Patagonians, Hottentots and so forth. 
Towards the end of the seventies, especially in 1879, the 
animal trade itself was in an exceedingly bad way, so that the 
anthropological side of my business became more and more 
important. The outbreak of the war with the Mahdi, which 
occurred at about this time, closed what had hitherto been our 
chief source of supply, vzz., the Sudan ; for it was now death 
to any European who was intrepid enough to enter that 
country. Even when the war was over, and the co-operating 
British and Egyptian Governments reopened the country, the 
