‘J AMR A CH’S ’ 
181 
cage, or of a refractory camel or elephant. The lower 
storey of the “ stables ” resembles a large, well-warmed 
London cow-house, with antelopes, deer, or kangaroos 
tethered to the walls and mangers, or stalled in loose- 
boxes, instead of Alderneys and shorthorns. An 
immense aoudad , 1 with wild yellow eyes, horns curving 
in an almost complete circle, and a thick shaggy beard 
continued into a fringe down its chest, and sweeping 
the ground between its feet, occupied the first loose- 
box. Most of the other pens were vacant, as a large 
shipment had left that day for the United States. 
A steep flight of steps leads to the second and third 
storeys, in which the animals are stored, not for exhi- 
bition, but just as they have come from the ships in 
the docks close by. There are no fixed rows of cages 
for the carnivora, or wooden pens for the large birds 
and harmless quadrupeds, because the former are 
delivered in their sea-cages, and the latter have grown 
used to confinement, and are either tethered or con- 
fined by wattle hurdles in corners or against the walls. 
The gallery is warm and dark, an important element 
in the comfort of the nervous, night-feeding animals, 
and of the more savage felidce , lighted only by one 
or two gas-jets, and redolent of sweet-scented clover- 
hay. The floor is encumbered with boxes of various 
dimensions, with all kinds of inmates, from squirrels 
and civet cats to pumas and panthers. The small 
size of the box or cage in which a large leopard or 
panther will live in fairly good health for several 
1 The Barbary sheep. 
