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They are thriving and increasing. Then were passed a good many 
Wapiti Deer—splendid animals—also a large herd of Sambur Deer. 
In other large enclosures of varying sizes were many other kinds of 
Deer, most of the different varieties being in numbers, and 
apparently doing well, such as Pere David’s Deer, from China, the 
Pekin, Fallow, Timor, Equine, Virginian, and Barking Deer; also 
Persian Gazelles, Black Buck, Sable Antelope, Muntjac, Thaur, 
Nylghaiae, White-Tailed and Brindled Gnus, Elands, Brindled 
Antelope, and Mouflons; and running loose in the Park were 
Kangaroos, Wallabies, a herd of fifteen Yaks, Highland and Jersey 
Cattle, and about eight Zebras. It was a wonderful and interesting 
sight; the different kinds generally kept separate, and were little 
disturbed by the carriages driving close to them. There are about 
3000 Deer of all kinds, on 1500 acres of land. In a small enclosure 
was a Zebra with a hybrid foal, and a Kiang, from Thibet. On 
two small lakes in the Park were many rare water-fowl, such as 
nearly all the known species of Swans; also Native Companions, 
Manchurian and Japanese Cranes, Circassian Snow Geese, Cape 
Barren Geese, Crested Grebes, and many others. In the home 
coverts were some of the rarer kinds of Pheasants, such as Elliott’s, 
Swinhoe’s, &c.; also Crested Tinamou. The Woburn collection is 
the finest one of its kind in existence. We also went through the 
Picture and Statue Galleries and small Museum in the Abbey 
itself, which was a most interesting and instructive sight. 
On September 1st I went to see Mr. Saviile Kent’s collection of 
Lizards. He keeps them in the room he uses as his office. Some 
of the varieties, such as the Australian Cyclodus, Chameleons, 
Skinks, &c., are loose about the room, and have become very tame, 
coming for their food when called. The smaller varieties are kept 
in glass and wire cages. They are fed on meal-worms, lettuce, &c., 
and the temperature of the room is kept about 65 degrees. 
I now tried to send to Rio de Janeiro the case of Cockatoos and 
pair of Wallaroo Kangaroos. I went to the three shipping 
companies whose vessels went to Rio from England, but the freight 
asked was exorbitant, much more than the value of the animals 
themselves, as the letters will show, so after much trouble 1 decided 
to forward them from Hamburg by a German steamer; and have 
arranged that whatever they send us in exchange will be sent 
direct to Hamburg, and shipped out to 11s from there, as the 
freight asked by the English shipping companies is too high. I had 
not had time to hear from the Director of the Rio Gardens before 
leaving London. 
I left London on September 10th for Paris, and there went 
carefully over the Acclimatisation Society’s Gardens. Their 
principal attraction seemed to be a captive 
Acclimatisation bal !° T °T , The y also have , a magnificent Palm 
Gardens. and Pern house, and also a kind of I ecnnological 
Museum, showing various kinds of traps, falconry, 
old guns, birds and eggs, mineral specimens, household utensils, 
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