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There is the usual large concert hall and refreshment room, and 
the concerts are very numerously attended, for on the Sunday 
afternoon I was there I was informed that 15,000 people had passed 
in. The great bulk of the visitors were sitting at small tables 
having light refreshments and listening to the band. The Society 
is consequently well-off, and able to build the elaborate houses. 
As a sideshow in the Gardens, and to which an additional entrance- 
fpp iq rpnuirpd is a panorama of animals, owned and trained by Mr. 
ee re * uirea ’ £ rl Hagenbeck. It is the most wonderful sight 
Oarl Hagenbeok’s of its kind I have ever seen. Some land, in the 
Panorama. shape of half an oval, is enclosed by a wall 15 ft. 
high, which is built principally of wood, painted to 
represent rock-work, and rocks are also placed at its base. It is 
about 400 ft. long by 300 ft. wide, and is divided into two divisions 
by a ditch 15 ft. deep and 12 ft. wide, over which nothing can cross, 
and which is hidden from view by rocks and logs. The back 
portion has a good deal of rock-work about, and is slightly higher 
than the front part, and in it are kept the following animals:—Four 
Lions, three Tigers, three Polar Bears, five Thibet Bears, two Sloth 
Bears, two Brown Bears, two Hyaenas, one Leopard, four Boar 
Hounds, and one Puma. They are all free in their enclosure, and 
always have a keeper with them, who has a whip, with which he 
separates any who commence fighting, but they seldom do. The 
animals are all under control, and the keeper often walks about 
with either two Polar Bears, one on each side of him, or a Black 
Bear and a White one. They walk upright on their hind legs, 
resting their paw on the man’s shoulder. Sometimes he sits down 
alongside one of the Lions, or Leopard, or Tiger, and, making it 
lie down, reclines half over the animal, stroking and patting it 
and apparently on perfectly good terms with it. Then, again, he 
makes the Lions, Tigers, or Bears stand in a row in front of him 
while he throws pieces of meat to each, which they seldom fail to 
catch. The Bears generally stand upright on their hind legs. When 
the Gardens are closed in the evening the various animals have 
collars and chains put on them by the keepers, and are taken off to 
their respective sleeping-dens, where they are fed. In the front 
portion of the enclosure are a Zebra, one Elephant, one Bactrian 
Camel, two Reindeer, five Indian Cattle, two Yaks, one Bantang 
Cow, three Black-Headed Sheep, three Donkeys, six Goats of 
various kinds, three Pelicans, three Sarus Cranes, four Rheas, two 
White Storks, two Black Storks, two White Swans, two Black 
Swans, one Kangaroo, one Black Buck, four Peafowl, three 
Numideari Cranes, twenty Geese and Ducks of various kinds, 
Gulls, one Maribou Stork, one Llama, and some Pheasants, all live 
together in perfect harmony, and without a keeper always in charge. 
The Elephant and Zebra were inseparable friends. The carnivora 
often cast longing eyes on the grass-feeding animals so close to 
them, but they could not cross the ditch. Visitors in front could 
