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wheat, and rick beans, and with green branches of any tree, or 

 withered leaves of any kind, he has not eaten of the potatoes at all. 

 Every fruit he readily devours as well as flowers, such as china roses 

 and tulips, or any other gay ornament of the parterre. He has been 

 sometimes observed to dibble in the earth with his sharp hoof, and 

 eat voraciously of the mould ; and once, having got access to a plum 

 tree, he swallowed so much of the fruit, stones and all, as to occa- 

 sion considerable alarm for his safety. He is very fond of hard biscuit, 

 and drinks often of fresh water," 



An account of the habits of the Chimpanzee was communicated by 

 Lieut. Henry K. Sayers. " Bamboo, the Chimpanzee, now in the 

 Zoological Society's Gardens, Regent's Park, and the subject of this 

 sketch," says Lieut. Sayers, "was purchased, about eight months 

 since, from a Mandingo, at Sierra Leone, who related that he had 

 captured him in the Bullom country, having first shot the mother, 

 on which occasions the young ones never fail to remain by their 

 wounded parents. On becoming mine, he was delivered over to a black 

 boy, my servant, and in a few days became so attached to him as to 

 be exceedingly troublesome, screaming and throwing himself into 

 the most violent passion if he attempted to leave him for a moment. 

 He evinced also a most strange affection for clothes, never omitting 

 an opportunity of possessing himself of the first garment he came 

 across, whenever he had the means of entering my apartment, which 

 he carried immediately to the Piazza, where invariably he seated 

 himself on it with a self-satisfied grunt, nor would he resign it 

 without a hard fight, and, on being worsted, exhibited every sym- 

 ptom of the greatest anger. Observing this strange fancy I procured 

 him a piece of cotton cloth, which, much to the amusement of all 

 who saw him, he was never without, carrying it with him wherever 

 he went, nor could any temptation induce him to resign it even for 

 a moment. Totally unacquainted with their mode of living in the 

 wild state, I adopted the following method of feeding him, which 

 has appeared to succeed admirably. — In the morning, at eight 

 o'clock, he received a piece of bread about the size of a halfpenny 

 loaf, steeped in water or milk and water ; about two, a couple of 

 bananas or plantains ; and before he retired for the night, a banana, 

 orange, or slice of pine apple. The banana appeared to be his fa- 

 vourite fruit ; for it he would forsake all other viands, and if not 

 gratified, would exhibit the utmost petulance. On one occasion I 

 deemed it necessary to refuse him one, considering that he had al- 

 ready eaten a suflficiency, upon which he threw himself into the most 

 violent passion, and uttering a piercing cry, knocked his head with 



