text: " * * * "There is no island or kingdom " (he continues ) "which has not contributed its specimens of the animal kingdom to these gardens: from the elephant and rhinoceros to the fly and the mosquito all are to be seen here"--but not even the giraffes strange as their appearance must have been to him attract any particular notice; though the sight of the exotics in the garden draws from him a repetition of his old complaint relative to the want of fragrance in the flowers as compared with those produced under the genial sun of India