. Beasts and men, being Carl Hagenbeck's experiences for half a century among wild animals;. Animal training; Menageries; Zoological specimens; Zoos. BEASTS AND AlEN During the latter half of the nineteenth century Africa was being- vigorously explored, and large consignments of animals-—especially elephants, giraffes and rhinoceroses— began to arrive in Europe from that continent. In the early sixties we began to deal on a larger scale, and I frequently had to undertake journeys for business purposes, my first visit to England being in 1864. The trade became m :)re flourishing, necessitating
. Beasts and men, being Carl Hagenbeck's experiences for half a century among wild animals;. Animal training; Menageries; Zoological specimens; Zoos. BEASTS AND AlEN During the latter half of the nineteenth century Africa was being- vigorously explored, and large consignments of animals-—especially elephants, giraffes and rhinoceroses— began to arrive in Europe from that continent. In the early sixties we began to deal on a larger scale, and I frequently had to undertake journeys for business purposes, my first visit to England being in 1864. The trade became m :)re flourishing, necessitating an extension of our premises in Spielbudenplatz, and in this same year of 1864 an important development occurred. Late one evening we received a teleeram from a friend in Vienna, sayino- that the African traveller, Lorenzo Cassanova, had arrived in the Austrian capital en 7^oute for Dresden, whither he was taking a number of animals which he had collected in Nubia. About a year and a half earlier Cassanova had brought home an enormous consignment of wild beasts from the Egyptian Sudan, includ- ing the first African elephant which had ever been seen in Europe, several giraffes, and numerous smaller creatures. On that occasion we could not afford to buy his collection, and the animals were eventually acquired by the famous old menagerie owner, Gottlieb Kreutzberg ; but this time the collec- tion was much smaller, and on the morning after the receipt of the tele- oram I set out for Dresden. I found Cassanova in the Zoological Gardens, where he had housed his animals, and before long the whole collection had Gottlieb Kreutzberg. ^^^^ j^^^^ ^^ pOSSeSsion. This, how- ever, was not the only or the most important result of my meeting with the Italian ; for after some discussion we con- cluded an agreement to the effect that all the animals which Cassanova succeeded in bringing to Europe from his future expeditions should be sold to us at definite prices named in. the contract. Cass
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