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near he peered forward toward the basket, and, as if overcome by 
fright, again ran back and hid himself under his cage. 
“IT now caused the hamper with the serpent to be taken out of 
the room. Our friend soon came forward. I showed him the apple 
and placed it on the chair. He advanced a little, and I patted his 
head and encouraged him. He then came forth and went about the 
room, looking carefully as if to satisfy himself that the snake was 
gone—advanced to the chair more boldly,—looked under it—and 
then took the apple and ate it with great appetite, dancing about 
and resuming all his former gaiety. 
“We know that there are large constricting serpents in Africa; 
and as the animal must have been very young when separated from 
its parent, I made this experiment in particular to try his instinct: 
it succeeded to the entire satisfaction of the witnesses who were 
present. 
‘‘He manifested aversion to a small living tortoise, but nothing 
like the horror which he betrayed at sight of the snake. I was in- 
duced to show him the former by the account of the effect produced 
by Testudinata on the Asiatic Orang, whose habits are so admirably 
described by Dr. Abel and Captain Methuen, who brought the ani- 
mal to England. 
“Tommy, among other exercises, is very fond of swinging. He 
places himself on the swing, generally in a sitting posture. holding 
on each side with his hands. He not unfrequently puts up his feet 
and grasps the cord on either side with them too, appearing more at 
home on his slack rope than Il Diavolo Antonio himself. 
«‘ James Hunt, one of the keepers, has observed him frequently 
sitting and leaning his head on his hand, attentively looking at the 
keepers when at their supper, and watching, to use Hunt’s expres- 
sion, ‘‘every bit they put into their mouths.” Fuller, the head 
keeper, informs me that our Chimpanzee generally takes his rest in a 
sitting posture, leaning rather forward with folded arms and some- 
times with his face in his hands. Sometimes he sleeps prone, with 
his legs rather drawn up, and his head resting on his arms. 
“Of the black Orangs which I have seen, Tommy is by far the 
most lively. He is in the best health and spirits, and is a very dif- 
ferent animal from the drooping, sickly Chimpanzees that I have 
hitherto seen. A good deal of observation made on the Asiatic 
Orangs which have been exhibited in this country, satisfies me that 
the intelligence of the African Orang is superior to that of the Asiatic. 
This intelligence is entirely different from that of a well-educated 
dog or a mere mimic, and gives me the idea of an intellect more re- 
sembling that of a human being than of any other animal, though 
still infinitely below it. 
«The Pygmy of Tyson and the black Orang dissected by Dr. 
Traill, and so well described by him in the ‘ Wernerian Transactions,’ 
are both stated to have progressed generally by placing their bent 
fists on the ground and so advancing: indeed Dr. Traill says that 
the individual which he saw never placed the palms of the hands on 
the ground. The progression of Dr. Abel’s red or Asiatic Orang is 
