INDEX. 



Abtj-Klea, behaviour of camels at, 195. 

 Akbar the Great, one thousand cheetahs 



owned by, 88. 

 Alaska Commercial Company, 508. 

 Alleyn (Edward), bear-garden owned 



by, 161. . 

 Animals, acclimatizing of, 420. 

 Animals (wild), cost of, 9 ; die from 



unknown diseases, 8 ; extermination 



in Africa of, 354 ; used for presents 



in middle ages, 305 ; destruction ia 



Rome of, 3. 

 Antelopes, 421. 

 Apes, anthropoid, 518 ; compared with 



human race, 562. 

 Aristotle, his history of animals, 2. 

 Asia (Central), wild camels in, 207. 

 Ass, the, 360 ; date of its introduction 



into England, 363 ; eaten in Rome, 



370 ; high price paid iu Rome for one, 



362 ; ill-treatment of, 364 ; tricks 



performed by a trained one, 366. 

 Ass, the wild, of Africa, 373 ; of Cutch, 



372. 

 Asses, white, highly valued in the East, 



361. 

 Assyrian bas-reliefs, cheetah represented 



on, 87. 

 Assyrians, enthusiastic lion-hunters, 34; 



ivory used for works of art by the, 



260. 



Bahaeam the Eipth, death of, 370; 



anecdote of, 371. 

 Baker (Sir Samuel), his boats attacked 



by a hippopotamus, 235. 



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Battell (Andrew), the gorilla described 

 by, 524. 



Bear, the black, 148 ; the brown, 155 ;. 

 the grizzly, 145; the Himalayan, 

 172; the Malayan, 172; the polar, 

 138 ; the sloth, 169 ; the spectacled, 

 171; the Syrian, 171 ; a shaved, 167. 



Bear-baitiug, 158; accident that befell 

 the spectators at, 160 ; Cromwell's sup- 

 pression of, 163; in Russia, 165; 

 strange debate in Parhament about, 

 164. 



Bear-garden, Edward Alleyn the pro- 

 prietor of a, 161. 



Bears, dancing, 166. 



Bear's-grease, 156. 



Bears, bred in Germany for food sup- 

 ply, 173 ; first animals to be used in 

 the Roman sports, 173. 



Bears, tame, 167. 



Bears (white), known to the Greeks, 

 142 ; plea against unnecessary cruelty 

 to, 144; exhibited by Ptolemy, 143; 

 two owned by Queen Elizabeth, 144 ; 

 when first seen in England, 144. 



Beisa antelope, the, 428. 



Bison, the American, 375 ; extermiaa- 

 tion of, 386; Indian hunting, 383; 

 stupendous herds of, 385 ; when first 

 seen in Europe, 395.- 



Bison, white, Indian superstition re- 

 garding, 377. 



Bison-herds, trains charged by, 383. 



Brighton Aquarium, Sea-lion bom ia 

 the, 517. 



Britain, wolves in, 123. 



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