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sary to change his straw, he was lured away by 

 holding out an orange at the top of his pole, and the 

 change was efifected while the ape was tearing open 

 the rind and sucking out its contents. In the even- 

 ing he never omitted to clear out a hole in the 

 straw, and to roll himself in his blanket. Gabriel 

 Max has drawn a striking likeness of the resigned 

 attitude of a sick orang. 



Gibbons have often been observed in a state of 

 captivity. Of the slothful and inanimate siamang 

 there is nothing of much interest to report. The 

 other species are, with few exceptions, phlegmatic, 

 shy, and timid, but hardly ever averse from human 

 society. Within a month Harlan was able to make 

 a hulock so tame that he would hold on with one 

 hand to him, while putting the others on the ground, 

 and so walk about with his keeper. He came to 

 his master's call, seating himself close to him on 

 a chair, shared his breakfast, and took an egg or 

 chicken-bone off the table so neatly as not to soil 

 the cloth. He was fond of cooked rice, bread soaked 

 in milk, bananas, oranges, coffee, tea, chocolate, 

 milk, etc. Generally he only dipped his fingers 

 in the drinking vessels and licked off the liquid, 

 but he could drink in human fashion. He searched 

 the house for spiders and other creeping things, 

 and brushed away flying insects with his right 

 hand. The creature was very affectionate, and 

 when Harlan came to him in the morning, he 

 greeted him with a joyful sound like a bark, which 

 went on for about a minute. He came to a call even 

 when at a distance, and was pleased to be combed. 



