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The menageries of Lucknow are very extensive, and besides those wild and savage animals kept for the purpose of assisting at “the pumps of death and theatres of blood”, in which this barbaric court delights, there are many fierce beasts, not intended for fighting, retained merely as ornamental appendages. Several rhinoceroses are among the number, they are chained to trees in the park, but some of the Tigers appear to be so ill secured, rattling the wooden bars of their cages with such vigourous perseverance, that it requires rather strong nerves to approach the places of the confinement.