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over a river, and, bending down his head between his 

 fore-paws, he seized each bit of bread in his mouth and 

 tossed it on to dry land ; then, springing back, he 

 devoured it greedily. When he had finished every 

 bit, he came to the front of the cage within a few feet 

 of me, and obligingly sat up to be photographed. 



Next to the bear were a pair of extremely hand- 

 some leopards in very good coat. They growled and 

 snarled and showed their teeth at one another, and 

 pretended to fight, but in reality this was only their 

 rough-and-tumble way of flirting with each other. 

 After all, are not some human beings just the same ? 



Further to the left you find a picturesque little 

 pagoda for the elephant, with a space railed off in 

 front in which he can take air and exercise and have 

 a cooling bath in the deep water-tank. 



Crossing a bridge over the street below, we come 

 to a long viaduct, under each arch of which is an 

 enclosure for birds or animals. On the extreme right 

 was a mouflon, w^hich also obligingly stood up with its 

 fore-legs on the rail in front of it in order to have its 

 picture taken. This animal's legs were somewhat 

 deformed, and stretched outwards from the knee, 

 giving it the appearance of being knock-kneed. Next 

 to the moufiion, under the second arch of the viaduct, 

 were a camel and a zebu housed together. On the 

 left of them was a pair of nylgai (Indian antelopes), 

 male and female, which appeared to be in the very 

 best of health and condition ; but I should say they 

 could not have been long in the Gardens, as they were 

 so wild, and whenever I moved the male raced about 

 its enclosure, whilst the female retired into its shelter- 



