Hamlin's JEotagerk Jttaga^ta. 
EDITED BY JOHN D. HAMLYN. 
No. 10.— Vol. 1. 
LONDON, FEBRUARY, 1916. 
PRICE ONE SHILLING. 
INTRODUCTORY. 
List of Subscribers, Jan. 11th to Feb. 11th. 
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Street, Bristol. 
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By arrangement with Messrs. W. H. Smith 
& Son, 186, Strand, W.C., "Hamlyn's Menagerie 
Magazine" is on sale on the 16th of each month 
at the following Railway Stations : — 
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The subscription for Vol. I., Nos. 1 to 12, is 
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No. 1. The price of this February Number is 1/-, 
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I have still a few December numbers for sale, 
1/-, post free. This contains the reproduction of 
a photograph taken at a Menagerie Sale in 1896. 
The conclusion of the " Settc Cama Recollec- 
tions," containing the native description of the 
supposed Water Elephant, will appear in the 
March number. 
Several very interesting old Menagerie Show 
Bills will be reprinted, some 100 years old. 
Many interesting reproductions of old photo- 
graphs will appear from time to time. I have a 
collection of several hundred. 
I am sorry that certain readers take exception 
to some remarks made concerning a late well- 
known and highly respected lady in the January 
number. Such an innuendo was quite uncalled 
for; it certainly escaped my notice when reading 
the manuscript, and I am grieved it was pub- 
lished. 
Advertisements are inserted at very reason- 
able rates. 
If you have not already sent in your 6/- sub- 
scription, might I respectfully ask you to do so? 
JOHN D. HAMLYN. 
" THE WATER ELEPHANT." 
Sir Harry Johnston, G.CjM.G., K.C»B., 
writes from St. John's Priorv, Poling, 27th Janu- 
ary, 1916 : — 
St. John's Priory, 
Poling, nr. Arundel. 
27th Jan., 1916. 
To the Editor of " Hamlyn's Magazine." 
Sir, 
I should like lo say that I have been increas- 
ingly interested in the information given in your 
Magazine, and trust that the venture will be a 
successful and a permanent one. 
I observe that a writer is lo give information 
in your pages on the stories of Water-elephants, 
I do not know what line he will take, or whether 
he will lend strength to the supposition that in 
the stories of "Water-elephants" we have the 
indication of the concealed existence in the swamps 
of Western Africa of some hitherto undiscovered 
