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we founder giant China
as guard. He was 8 feet
Tall apparently where
photographed him. Notbroth
was a guard also + well over
6 feet high. The animals
were a few deer, mupite,
Apis, rose etc a zebra,
elephant, 'Nilgai', Leopard,
jaguar, lion, panther, birds
of many species. Unimportant
not many Chinese species
were exhibited but only foreign
animals. The Botanic
gardens had half a dozen
labelled foreign Trees (prag
chiefly) + was a poor
display for so rich a land
as China in flowers & trees