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out of the station into the streets of Osaka was e circus tent. 
We wanted to dash right in, but it seemed that we were expected at 
the Zoo, so we went there first, and submitted to the usual photo- 
graphs and interviews. Bill was ashed, for the nth tire, how 
Japanese Zoos compared with American Zoos, and I was asked what I 
thought of Japanese girls. Our doings are chronicled daily in 
the newspapers, and every opinion we express is aired, usually with 
some inaccuracy, over the radio. We have posed with the Tokyo 
elephant, the Kvoto hippopotamus, the Osaka stilt-walking chimpanzee 
and incidentally with a* Kyoto geisha girl, but Mrs. Komai tells us 
that it was not a good newspaper but a sort of tabloid that pub- 
lished the picture taken in the geisha house. 
The Osaka Zoo was, like the others, interesting. It has 
recently been enlarged, and an underground passage connects the new 
part with the old. This subway has been turned into a small, under- 
ground aquarium. The Zoo has one giraffe, and a fine sea-lion pool 
with eight sea lions, which the public is allowed to feed with fish 
thoughtfully provided and sold for a sen or two each. This honor 
svstem for feeding the animals is used in every Zoo. The public, 
the animals and the administration all enjoy the benefit. There were 
two elephants in a bar-less pit, a good monkey island, a row of 
big cat cages covered with a wistaria trellis, seven sacred cranes, 
a trained, chimp and three others, a ouakari, an albino king snake - 
1500 specimens of 280 species. And the usual charge, 15 sen for 
adults, 10 sen for children. (100 sen equals 29 American cents.. 
From Osaka we were driven to Koshien, a place we had never 
heard of, where a most amusing Zoo is maintained by the Osaka-Kobe 
Electric Railway Co. in a Coney Island sort of amusement park. 
Here w s a monkey island with windmill and rowboats for the Japanese 
monkeys. A pair" of wart hogs proudly displayed their three babies. 
The chimpanzee had a glass-fronted house, with fireplace, benches, 
and other domestic furniture. Thirteen sealions - one big bull - 
disported in an enormous pool. The great sight was the penguin 
pool, where there are about thirty penguins (jackass) in all stages 
from egg to adult. Thirty have been born here. We photographed 
the flock, and then a three-weeks' old baby was brought out to 
have his picture taken. I petted him, and he was as soft as silk. 
Below the pool is a glass, front, so that the birds can be seen 
through the water, swimming and diving for fish. There ware 25 
species of monkey, including douroucoulis and woolly ana gibbon, 
a trained chimp, a circus wagon cage for performing lions, a Chosen 
leopard. The greatest thrill of all was a pool about a hundred 
feet in diameter, which contained a live whale, an 11-foot Glo- 
biocephalus scammoni, which feeds on dead squid and spends all 
day swimming counter clockwise, and coming up to blow three times 
in each circuit of the pool. 
Koshien also has an acuarium, where the tanks are nicely 
arranged, some of them projecting, rsther than having them ail 
in a straight line, and sparklingly clean, with coral set in cement 
for backgrounds. One of the nicest exhibits was a flock of 
Hypodytes rubripinnis, the Sargassum fish. 
