CHAPTER TIL 
HOW WILD ANIMALS ARE CAUGHT. 
I must now proceed to describe the manner in which the 
various denizens of my animal park are captured in their 
native haunts, and must relate, in particular, the interesting 
experiences which my travellers have had in the Sudan, in 
Rhodesia, and elsewhere. 
There is no business or profession in existence in which 
the science of travel, and all the difficulties connected there- 
with, play such a prominent part as in the animal trade. In 
the exercise of his business the animal trader has to search 
the uttermost parts of the earth. In the primeval forests of 
Africa, in the deep jungles of India and Ceylon, on the vast 
steppes of Mongolia and Siberia, the traveller wanders for 
weeks, nay for months at a time, in search of the strange 
dwellers in the wild. 
Unlike the hunter, who is attracted only by the love of 
sport, the animal trader goes to work. He goes, not to 
destroy his game, but to take it alive; and consequently not 
the least of the difficulties with which he is beset is the 
discovery of some practicable way of bringing back his booty 
to civilisation. As a rule, every foot of the arduous journey 
is attained only at the expense of some loss to the caravan. 
Books and maps dealing with the countries where we carry 
on our work are few and far between, for naturally the 
localities where wild animals are to be caught are very remote 
from all the more civilised parts of the world. Nor are these 
the only obstacles; for uncivilised peoples, no less wild than 
the beasts, have to be secured and made friends with—a 
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