The word menagerie has appeared in 47 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on Jan. 10 in “As Its Population Soars to 40, Rum Isle Glimpses a Future in the Mist” by Stephen Castle:

Yet if this is an alluring island, it’s also one with a difficult history. In the 19th century, the Gaelic-speaking population was evicted during the so-called Highland clearances when landlords created big sheep farms.

By the end of that century, Rum was the playground of George Bullough, an eccentric English tycoon who built a hunting lodge known as Kinloch Castle, complete with a menagerie that reportedly included a pair of small alligators.

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