In the centre of the Garden a side-show was given, consisting of singing and dancing by some natives of Africa, who called themselves ‘Atogos’; but I think from their absurdly silly dancing and quaint hair-dressing they were Dahomeyans. CHAPTER XXXI ZOOLOGICAL GARDEN, VIENNA: INSPECTOR, A. KRAUS This Garden, which belongs to the Emperor of Austria, is situated in the grounds of the Emperor’s summer residence at Schönbrunn, an environ of Vienna. No one is permitted to take photographs in it. After passing through the palace-gates, turn to the right, and a short walk through beautifully kept gardens brings you to the Zoological Garden, in which there is a fine collection of animals and birds. The first cages are occupied by goats and sheep, forming a large representative collection. One black-and-white domestic-looking sheep, which I did not recognise, and which, unfortunately, had no name on its pen, was almost as high at the withers as a fallow buck. There was also a herd of the very curious, fat-tailed, white sheep with black heads from Somaliland. Keeping to the left, we encounter no less than three lion houses, all well filled. Next comes a monkey house, with large outside cages of novel construction. The antelope houses have open-air paddocks close by them, into which the animals are driven through railed-off passages. There were nylgai, gnus, _Oryx beisa_, and the rarely-seen _Oryx addax_. One seldom sees the hartebeest antelope in captivity. There are no fewer than eight different species of the genus _bubalis_, and they are amongst the most common of the antelopes of the plains. It is odd that they should be so seldom captured. When on the open plains of North-east Africa, I saw hundreds upon hundreds of ‘Swayne’s hartebeest,’ but so far no specimen of this antelope has been seen alive in Europe. I never saw any very young calves, and my theory is that the cows, when about to give birth, retreat either into very thick bush or so far away from all caravan-tracks that they are seldom encountered. Another common African animal never seen in captivity is the African rhinoceros, which is much more plentiful than its cousin the Indian rhino, which, on the other hand, is frequently met with in captivity. It is, however, difficult to feed young rhinos. A baby one requires every day the milk of at least fourteen goats in full milk. A good few are caught, but seldom reach the coast alive, owing to underfeeding. You cannot overfeed an elephant or rhinoceros, and great cruelty is inflicted in some Gardens on the Continent by underfeeding these large pachyderms, some of the elephants being wretchedly thin and emaciated. In one case an enormous Indian elephant was receiving four pounds of wheat-cake only a day. No wonder he had turned into the savage brute he was.