The next instant a cage was opened, and two large lions bounded out into the open past me without taking any notice, and with a jump were into a large circular cage, where they were put to do tricks by an attendant, who played with them as you or I would play with kittens. They were rough, too; they jumped on his back, and they ran at him and pawed him, but he didn’t seem to mind a bit. In a second training cage another man, armed only with a stout whip, led in one by one six tigers and three lions, all full-grown, and, catching each by the neck, first put a chain collar round it, and then tethered each to the iron bars of the cage at equal distances apart; a large barrow of horses’ heads and flesh was then brought in, and some flesh flung to each. There was no fighting, as each was tethered apart. In another cage three lions, two tigers, two leopards, and two pumas went through the same feeding process. I asked one of the men if he ever got hurt. ‘Yes,’ he said, ‘I get a scratch now and then by accident; but it is done in play, for I love my animals and they love me.’ I asked Hagenbeck what the lot of six tigers and three lions were worth. He answered that when he first trained them he was offered £7,500 for them. ‘But I would not take it,’ he added. ‘Why, they bring me in £4,000 a year clear profit when on the road, besides the advertisement they give me.’ In one house I saw 150 monkeys. Three large lion houses contained twenty-five lions, twenty-one Bengal tigers, and five crosses between lion and tiger, seen nowhere else in the world. Two of these lion-tigers were three weeks old, and were being suckled by a fox-terrier bitch. Two were one year and two weeks old, and one (a magnificent animal) was full-grown. It is five years old, is fawn-coloured and faintly striped; it weighs 450 lb., is 10 feet long, and stands 45½ inches high at the shoulder. It is the largest carnivorous animal alive. In one of the lion houses was a magnificent collection of red-deer horns from Hungary, Germany, and Denmark. In an elephant house were twelve elephants, including a female elephant suckling a youngster eight months old. The female was served in captivity, and is now expected to give birth to a second. There were 28 big Arabian baboons, 40 adult females, and 92 young ones, a very large number of polar bears, wolves, foxes, dogs, hyænas, leopards, 8 various bears, and many birds. There were, however, no giraffes, and Hagenbeck, when questioned, said, even now the Soudan has been opened again, he fears that there are not so many giraffes as there used to be there. ‘Why,’ he said, ‘in the summer season of 1876 I had no less than thirty-five giraffes in my menagerie.’ A staff of twenty men is employed in the menagerie, and it costs Carl Hagenbeck £4,000 a year to feed his collections in Hamburg and Stellingen. ‘All the animals look so well,’ I remarked. ‘How is it done?’