 All eight Inuit were killed by smallpox.Hagenbeck's exhibit of human beings, considered as "savages in a natural state," was the probable source of inspiration for Albert Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire's similar "human zoo" exhibition in the Jardin d'acclimatation in Paris.Saint-Hilaire organized in 1877 two "ethnological exhibitions," presenting Nubians and Greenlandic Inuit to the public, thereby doubling the number of visitors of the zoo.