The next house contained zebus, wapiti, Japanese deer, and black-and-white African sheep with fat tails. The extraordinary abundance of fat on the tails is a provision of nature, and enables the animal to go without food for a considerable period when making long marches from one patch of long grass to another, which is of frequent occurrence in the arid deserts where they live. I frequently gave as little as three arms’-length of common American sheeting for one fat-tailed sheep in Somaliland, North-East Africa, one of the principal homes of these black-and-white sheep. In the centre of the Garden is another pond, upon which were ducks, swans, pelicans, storks, and cormorants. There was a pen of Angora sheep, the old ram having most beautifully twisted horns. In a rockery was one of the prettiest sights in the Garden--a herd of Barbary sheep, a favourite animal in Continental zoos; behind them were a herd of yak, and one of white llamas. Anyone who happens to find himself in Ghent with an hour to spare should visit the Garden. It is close to the railway-station. CHAPTER XI JARDIN ZOOLOGIQUE, LIÈGE: DIRECTOR, M. HENRARD This Garden belongs to the Royal Society of Acclimatation and Horticulture of Liège. On entering (I saw nobody to pay), I found a number of poultry pens, the inmates being for sale. A large number of ducks and geese are also bred and sold, and two cages contained fox-terrier dogs for sale. There was a bear pit, which appeared to be empty, and a monkey-cage only half full; but look as I would all over the Garden, I could find no other animals. The Garden is very long and very narrow, and has several large duck-ponds, many down the middle containing a few ducks and geese. There is a children’s playground with swings of various kinds, but this Garden can scarcely be called a zoological garden. There is a school of horticulture, a restaurant, and a band-stand. CHAPTER XII ZOOLOGISCHER GARTEN, AIX-LA-CHAPELLE (AACHEN): DIRECTOR, AUG. BAST This Garden was founded in 1886 by Sir Emil Lochner, and his widow is now proprietress. On paying twenty pfennig one is confronted by a large, handsome concert-hall with glass roof and sides, with pretty beds of tulips in front of it. At first I could find no animals, although I found several empty cages and pens. At length, however, I came upon a deer house with outside enclosure, containing, amongst others, a pair of wapiti about half grown. Close by it was a bear den built like a castle, and containing a brown and a polar bear; in two other pens close at hand were a pair of white goats and a pretty roe deer. What, apparently, had been an antelope shed now housed two monkeys and some parrots. There was rather a nice lion house, but there was not a single animal in it. There was a llama pen inhabited by one llama, and a pheasant house and a duck lake finished a very disappointing show, considering the accommodation and possibilities of the place.