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back in his boat. The cow, after looking at the boat for an instant, 
‘took a header, and, plunging into the river, swam after her calf, 
pursued by the whole of the bullocks, which were thus got safely 
across. That was ingenuity on the part of the man; and he could 
give an illustration of extraordinary instinct on the part of the fishing 
eagle and other birds. He would not say that every time this fishing 
eagle put his wits into practice he was successful ; but he would state 
that he lived by his wits. The eagle would watch the pelican fishing 
for his dinner, and, as soon as he had caught a fish in the large pouch 
of his bill, the eagle would swoop down towards him, when the pelican, 
if he was young and foolish,- would look up and screech, and, whilst 
his mouth was thus open, the eagle would snatch the fish from it with 
his talons ! 
But the most striking instance of instinct that he had ever met 
with, and he had never seen a similar instance recorded in works on 
Natural History, was shown by the Toucan. One day he was standing 
by the river side, when Livingstone came to him and said, “ What is 
the most striking instance of instinct and conjugal affection that you 
ever met with?” Being out of sorts about something, he replied, 
“ Oh, bother instinct and conjugal affection too ;” but poor Livingstone 
repeated his question and pressed him to come and look at what he 
had discovered in a neighbouring tree. “Look there!” he said, 
“what is that?” “A bird feeding its young ones, I suppose.” 
“ Aye,” replied Livingstone; “the young ones are not only in 
there, but the mother too; and the father is feeding the whole 
family.” The male bird was flying to and fro, collecting food which 
he was passing through a chink in the tree. It turned out that the 
female toucan had allowed herself to be plastered up in a hole in the 
tree, to be liberated only when the young ones were able to take care 
of themselves ; and this was an instinctive precaution on the part of 
the parents to preserve them from wild cats, for, wherever the cats had 
been destroyed or driven away from around a native settlement, the 
toucan built as openly as any other bird. 
The commencement of slaving operations in a district was 
next very ably described. Having promised to wait and watch 
for Livingstone, who had laid down to sleep one day, he fell asleep 
himself, and was awoke by a voice saying “I salute you.” Casting 
his eyes up he saw a man standing over him dressed most fantastically 
in a red robe de chambre, and, bursting into a laugh, said, “ Why, 
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