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living, and purposed killing him, but I pleaded so earnestly for his life, 

 that he was spared till we ascertained the probability of finding a second. 

 During this interval Mr. Bowdich was seized with fever, and I had no 

 time or thought for my pet, who one day wandered on to the common, 

 and was bitten by a wild cat. He contrived to crawl up stairs to me, 

 and lay himself down at my feet ; I tried every thing I could think of to 

 recover hira, but his spine was broken, and he died very shortly after. 

 I put him into a jar of rum, covered him close, and left him for some 

 weeks, at the end of which time, desirous of ascertaining his preserva- 

 tion, I opened the jar, and found that the black boys had drank all the 

 rum, and that my precious specimen was destroyed by vermin. I still 

 hoped to preserve the skeleton, but an officious servant threw it into the 

 river during my absence. This animal was about the size of a small 

 cat, and of a dark gray colour. His fur was very fine, soft, and long; 

 his snout, which was I'cd, was like that of a pig; his ears black, and 

 resembled those of a monkey ; his teeth referred him to the family of 

 Carnivora, and his feet, and method of walking, to the group Plantigrada. 

 He took up every thing which he ate with his fore paws, and he did not 

 lap when drinking. He was remarkably docile and affectionate, and 

 suffered my children to pull him about without offering to bite them ; 

 he leaped from great heights without fear ; he caught rats like a dog, 

 and he followed those he knew everywhere. He constantly accom- 

 panied us to dinner at the officer's quarters, and when I desisted going, 

 in consequence of Mr. Bowdich's illness, he went by himself, regularly 

 coming back in the evening to sleep. He loved warmth, and was very 

 impatient of confinement, biting the strong wires of the cage, into which 

 we first put him, so close together that he could slip through the 

 aperture. He had no unpleasant smell, but was very partial to wallow- 

 ing in every thing wet and dirty. He was a native of Kasimanse. The 

 wild cats who destroyed him, belong to the genus Genetta, and are very 

 numerous, even in the town. 



I did not hear of any hyaenas, (which abound at Cape Coast) but there 

 are a great many panthers on the main land, though report says there 

 are none in Banjole. I saw several skins, all of which had that 

 appearance, by which we can instantly pronounce them to come from 



