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beyond the ever-encroaching limits of common 
commerce ; from the regions where the half-armed 
savage still robs the cabs of the Gaetulian lioness, 
and barters his barbaric spoils for the wares of the 
civilized West. So in the old room at Jamrach’s, 
the barbaric settings have gathered almost without 
intention round the spot which the nexus of commerce 
links with the rough outside edge of the white man’s 
world, and the dusty shields and assegais, the bolas 
and bows, the matchlock and two-handed swords 
of the rhinoceros-hunting Arabs, are mingled with 
sharks’ and crocodiles’ skulls, scalps and tomahawks, 
wampum and Indian relics, and whatever in the 
unnumbered lumber of the world of savage sport 
and warfare corresponds to the tamer accessories 
of the “ gun-room ” in our English country houses. 
The place of the favourite dog before the fire, to 
continue the simile, is of course taken by some foreign 
pet which is the favourite of the moment. At the 
time of the writer’s first visit to this naturalist’s 
sanctum the goddess of the hearth was a lovely little 
Japanese pug puppy. The little creature was covered 
with the long silky black and white hair which in 
the Japanese pug, like the Japanese bantam, takes 
the place of the shorter and less elegant covering 
of the Western breed. It was carefully clothed in 
a neatly-fitting flannel jacket, and apparently had 
all the fondness for English habits which distinguishes 
the cultivated classes of modern Japan. It sat up and 
begged, and wagged its tail like an educated little 
