CARNIVORES IN CAPTIVITY IOI 
always fall into the most violent excitement on hearing my 
voice in the distance ; and when | came up he would purr 
like a cat, and was never satisfied till I had gone into the cage 
and spent some little time with him. Often on these occasions 
have the public stood round in astonishment at the spectacle 
of this strange meeting. In memory of this tiger I had a 
water-colour painted for me by the animal painter Leutemann, 
which is still in my possession. 
My animal friends are scattered about in many parts of the 
world, carefully guarded behind bolts and bars. Their life 
is not so long as ours; old age and death come very quickly 
upon them ; and hence most of my friendships are things of 
the past. One of my oldest friends is a lion now resident in 
the Zoological Gardens at Cologne. This lion came from 
North Africa, and was one of a pair purchased by me when 
five years old from a Belgium menagerie in 1890. They 
were exceedingly handsome and perfectly tame, so that, 
although I only had them for two months, that period was 
sufficient for a lifelong friendship to grow up. I spent a con- 
siderable time with the animals every day and was very 
sorry when at last they had to go. One went to the Zoologi- 
cal Gardens at Hamburg and the other to Cologne. The 
one that stayed in Hamburg died several years ago, but the 
other is still alive, and, though now old and infirm, he still re- 
members me. Once when I was travelling in a train to 
Cologne I made a bet that he would recognise me without 
seeing me, if I merely shouted to him from some distance off. 
And I proved to be right ; for as soon as he heard the sound 
of my voice, the old lion came up to the bars and would not 
rest until I had greeted and stroked him. 
I once madeasimilar experiment in the Zoological Gardens 
at Bronx Park in New York. There lived there two lions 
and a tiger with whom I had once been well acquainted but 
whom I had not seen for a long time past. The director, Dr. 
Hornaday, did not believe that the animals would recognise me ; 
but he was wrong. No sooner had I entered the door and 
