1868. AGE 40.

1886. AGE 58.

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SOME PROFESSIONAL ADVENTURES OF KARL HAGENBECK.
By Raymond Blathwayt.

As Karl Hagenbeck stood with me, in his Hamburg Wild Beast Emporium, before the great cage of the boa constrictors and pythons, he naturally fell to relating some of the curious adventures that have befallen him with snakes and other brutes.

There was a great ugly looking boa constrictor coiled up in a corner by itself, a most repulsive looking animal.