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They live exclusively on vegetable substances, but 
when these Orangs were first received, there was consider¬ 
able difficulty in finding out what would best agree with 
them. Experience, however, has proved that a mixed diet 
of gram and fruits is the best. 
From this house a path leads along the neighbouring lake 
in a southerly direction to 
The Abdool Gunny House, 
called after the Nawab Khajah Abdool Gunny, C. S I., of 
Dacca. It has now only one inmate, a very fine example 
of the Himalayan Bear, the oldest resident in the Garden, 
Two paths diverge from this house, one broad path 
to the south, and one narrow path to the west. The visitor 
should follow the latter which will take him to a roadside 
cage known as 
The Armadillo Cage. 
The Armadilloes belong to an Order of the Animal King¬ 
dom known as the Bruta or Edentata, and which contains 
three well-marked sections—first, the Sloths ; second, the 
Ant-eaters ; and third, the Armadilloes. The term Eden¬ 
tata applied to them is not strictly accurate because the 
majority of them have teeth, but they are all distinguished 
by the absence of the front incisor teeth of both jaws. 
The Sloths are found only in South America and are very 
different animals from the so-called Sloth of India, which 
is not a Sloth at all, but an animal much higher in the 
scale of life, and closely allied to the monkeys. The Sloths 
are large hairy creatures with a peculiar physiognomy, and 
live exclusively on trees, hanging, head and body down¬ 
wards, on to the branches by means of the long claws 
