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described to have been after the same fashion. Whether it is that 
our Chimpanzee is in better health and more lively, I know not, but 
he certainly passes a great deal of his time in a position nearly ap- 
proaching to erect, nor does he, generally, place the bent knuckles 
to the ground. He will often stand on the top of his cage and 
apply the palms of his hands to the smooth surface of the wall against 
which it stands. It is said that a spectator who saw him thus em- 
ployed, with his back to the company, dressed in his little banyan 
jacket and woollen cap, was told by a companion to look at the 
monkey, as he profanely called him. ‘‘ Where is he?” was the re- 
ply. ‘“ Why there on the top of the cage,” was the answer. ‘‘ What!” 
said the first, ‘‘that little man who is plastering the wall?” 
«Tommy does not like confinement, and when he is shut into his 
cage, the violence with which he pulls at and shakes the door is very 
great, and shows considerable strength; but I have never seen him 
use this exertion against any other part of the cage, though his 
keeper has endeavoured to induce him to do so in order to see 
whether he would make the distinction. When at liberty he is ex- 
tremely playful, and, in his high jinks, I saw him toddle into a 
corner where an unlucky bitch was lying with a litter of very 
young pups, and lay hold of one of them, till the snarling of the 
mother and the voice of his keeper, to which he pays instant respect, 
made him put the pup down. He then climbed up to the top of the 
cage where the Marmozets were, and jumped furiously upon it, evi- 
dently to astonish the inmates, who were astonished accordingly, and 
huddled together, looking up in consternation at this dreadful pother 
o’er their heads. Then he went to the window, opened it and looked 
out. I was afraid that he might make his escape: but the words 
“Tommy, no!” pronounced by his keeper in a mild but firm tone, 
caused him to shut the window and come away. He is in truth a 
most docile and affectionate animal, and it is impossible not to be 
taken by the expressive gestures and looks with which he courts 
your good opinion, and throws himself upon you for protection 
against annoyance. 
«« Tt must be remembered that though I have not observed our Chim- 
panzee to progress with his bent knucklestouching the ground, as [ have 
seen the Asiatic Orangs move, there is no reason for doubting the ac- 
curate descriptions of Tyson and Dr. Traill. I consider it as my pro- 
vince to relate faithfully what I saw, and I have only seen our Chimpan- 
zee, as yet, in a small room, where a very few paces will bring him toa 
chair, a leg of a dresser, or some other piece of furniture which en- 
ables him to call into action his prehensile hands and feet, so admi- 
rably adapted to his arboreal habits. The narrowness of the pelvis, 
the comparatively inferior development of the glutei* and gastro- 
enemii muscles, and other peculiarities of conformation so ably 
* This must be understood as limited to a comparison with the same 
muscles in man; for there is in the Chimpanzee as Mr. Owen observes, “ a 
persion for a more extended attachment for the glut@i muscles, in a greater 
readth of the ilia between the superior spinous processes, than is observed 
in the inferior Simi.” 
