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in advance and two behind the Sultan, Mr. Moore and my- 

 self being in the centre with the Sultan. As we passed the 

 aviaries, pheasantries and other cages, I explained their 

 contents, which the Sultan from time to time stopped to 

 admire and to listen to what was said respecting them. 

 His Majesty was evidently much struck by the appearance 

 and performance of the Sea-hear; and the keeper, Lecomte, 

 as usual, did his best to render this part of the exhibition 

 as complete as possible ; the stay at this spot was of 

 considerable duration, and the Sultan expressed himself 

 as highly delighted. The zebras next seemed to please 

 him much ; passing from this house he came upon the 

 large camivora and the keeper, Cocksedge, who took con- 

 siderable pains to display the lions and tigers. 



THE GREAT LOBSTEE. 



I remember the following good story of my old and 

 much-esteemed friend, Mr. Adolph Franks, senior, a 

 zoological merchant of Amsterdam. Franks and I used 

 to do a large amount of zoological business with all the 

 museums throughout Europe. He used to come to Eng- 

 land to purchase large collections of dead animals, skeletons, 

 birds, reptiles, fishes, etc. After transacting a large 

 lot of business with Jamrach and myself one day, he pro- 

 posed that we should go to the theatre in the evening ; 

 well, having enjoyed the evening at the theatre and before 

 parting he made us join him in a big supper in Oxford 

 Street. Franks was ahvaj's mad (when he came to London) 

 on lobsters for supper, so he went into the restaurant and 

 looked at the lobsters, which were rather small. He then 

 seized the waiter and dragged him outside, and in bad 

 English mixed with Dutch told the frightened man, in an 

 excited state of mind, that he wanted a lobster as big as 



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