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in consequence. If allowed to be dirty or hungry, 

 or otherwise neglected, it would cry loudly until it 

 received attention, or sometimes would cough or 

 struggle like an adult animal. If there was no one 

 in the house, or if no one paid attention to its cries, 

 it would be quiet for a time, and only renew them 

 when a step was heard. 



At the end of five weeks the two upper front 

 teeth were cut, but throughout that period the 

 creature had not grown, and remained of the same 

 size and weight. This was doubtless owing to the 

 want of milk or other nourishing food. Cocoa-milk 

 seemed to produce diarrhcea, of which it was cured 

 by castor-oil. A week or two later it sickened of 

 what appeared to be intermittent fever, and died 

 within a week.* 



In 1837 the Zoological Gardens in London received 

 an orang of two or three years old. He was for the 

 most part sluggish and inert, but had occasional fits 

 of better humour and playfulness. When angry he 

 would attack strangers, but he generally sat cross- 

 legged on a low stool, or on the ground before the 

 fire, wrapped in a woollen rug. When the giraffes 

 of the establishment inquisitively stretched their 

 long necks over the bars of the ape's cage, the 

 creature evinced no fear, but tried to seize the long- 

 legged animals by the muzzle. This orang answered 

 to his name, and was obedient to his keeper, often 

 searching in his pocket for the dainties concealed 

 there. He was uneasy when separated by the cage- 

 bars from his master ; and when confined in an euclo- 



* Wallace's Malay A rchipelago, vol. i. 



