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come aboard a Dundee collier from a ship hailing from 
Calcutta. 
Comparing all these examples and many others—for hun- 
dreds, almost, of similar cases with various animals might 
be cited—certain general facts appear. 
First, incidentally, brutes equally with men become home- 
sick. Those that stay away, as well as those that return to 
their former homes, show this very plainly, and often piti- 
ably. This feeling is the motive which leads them to un- 
dergo perils and hardships that no other emotion would 
prompt them to undertake or enable them to endure. But 
it is the most thoroughly domesticated and most intelli- 
gent breeds of animals that this homesickness attacks the 
most severely ; while, correlatively, the most difficult feats 
of finding their way home are manifested by the same class. 
It is the finely-bred horses, the carefully-reared pigeons, the 
highly-edueated pointers, fox-hounds, and collies that return 
from the longest distances and over the greatest obstacles. 
This would seem to indicate that the homing ability is 
largely the result of education; whatever foundation there 
may have been in the wild brute, it has been fostered un- 
der civilizing influences, until it has developed to an aston- 
ishing degree. I would like to ask any one who believes 
that this ability is wholly a matter of intuition—an innate 
