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remembered. Until the expeditions which Hagenbeck 
and others have despatched into Central Africa, via 
Berbera, and into Borneo and the West Coast of 
Africa, return, there is little to fall back upon but 
the average supply which arrives without system and 
in chance ships. A single purchase by an agent from 
the Philadelphia Zoological Gardens included a leopard, 
a hyena, a pair of cheetahs, a Bornean bear, antelopes, 
emus, and other birds. Other Zoological Gardens 
are being laid out and built in New York and the 
cities of the West; but it may be doubted whether, 
even from Jamrach’s, the inhabitants will readily be 
found to occupy them. 
The frailness of the cages in which many of the 
animals arrive from their sea voyage is matter for 
some surprise. They are nearly always wooden boxes 
hardly stronger than a sound packing-case, with a 
front of strong iron rails. The secret of their safe 
carriage lies in their own stupidity. Like a lobster in 
a pot, they always endeavour to escape from the front, 
springing towards the light, and it is precisely at this 
point that the strongest part of the case, the iron bars, 
blocks the way. When the last black leopard arrived 
at the Zoo, as a present from the Duke of Newcastle, 
who had purchased it at Singapore when on a tour 
round the world, it was soon shifted from its travelling 
cage into the fine new den it was to occupy in the 
Lion House. As it was known to be a violent and 
savage creature, an inner lining of steel netting about 
eight inches across the mesh had been fixed inside the 
