CHAPTER. IL 
MY PARK AT STELLINGEN. 
In the previous chapter I have related the earlier history of 
my business. I still have to give a record of its subsequent 
development into the great animal park now existing at 
Stellingen. 
As the years rolled by, my business gradually increased 
until its branches extended to all parts of the world. To its 
original purpose, v2z., the buying and selling of live animals, 
many new purposes came to be added. I had ethnographic 
exhibitions ; I was interested in the propaganda of the new 
humane method of training wild animals; I had breeding 
experiments ; and there were many other ideas which I was 
only awaiting an opportunity to carry out. For the execution 
of all these projects the space now at my disposal was wholly 
insufficient. It became therefore a matter of the first im- 
portance to acquire an extensive tract of country, where I 
should be free from the handicap: of a confined space. - 
Especially was this necessary for my experiments in acclima- 
tisation. These it had now become essential for me to 
undertake, seeing that a large portion of my business was in 
the importation of game from foreign countries for sporting 
purposes, and trading in the many kinds of domesticated © 
animals. I was, moreover, receiving orders to supply animals 
for the new Zoological Gardens which were springing up in 
Morocco, China, Japan, Argentina and elsewhere. This 
alone required a good deal of room, and a removal had 
clearly become a necessity. 
I found, much to my regret, that my additional require- 
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