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appeared in a description of the kingdom of Congo by 

 Pigafetta in 1598, published at Frankfort. A further 

 notice appeared in a curious book, entitled " Purchas : 

 His Pilgrimage," in 1613; but in the last year of the 

 same seventeenth century a full and accurate account of 

 the structure of the chimpanzee, with excellent plates, 

 was published in London by Tyson under the title 

 " Anatomie of a Pigmie." 



The gorilla has been hardly seen in Europe, though a 

 specimen lived for a time in the Westminster Aquarium, 

 and in Berlin ; but the much smaller chimpanzee has 

 often been exhibited alive in London, and is an attractive 

 feature in menageries, not only from its resemblance to 

 a child deformed by preternatural wrinkles of age, but 

 also from its liveliness and the facility with which it 

 acquires a number of playful tricks. 



There was till lately a chimpanzee, known as " Sally," 

 at the London Zoological Gardens which was in three 

 ways remarkable. To begin with, it was the best grown 

 and largest specimen which has lived in Europe ; secondly, 

 it differed from all before known ones by its carnivo- 

 rous habits. It would greedily seize and devour small 

 birds, whereas such apes were previously supposed to be 

 naturally vegetarians only. But it was, in the third place, 

 most remarkable for the tricks it acquired. It would 

 separately pick up from the ground, place in its mouth, 

 and then present in one bunch, two, three, four, or five 

 straws, as might be demanded of it, or only one. It had dis- 

 tinctly associated the several sounds of these numbers with 

 corresponding groups of picked-up straws. It would also, 

 on command, pass a straw through a large or small hole 

 in the fastening of its cage or through a particular inter- 

 space of its wire netting. Finally, it would, when so 

 bidden, put objects into its keeper's pocket, play various 



