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stances adhered to it, it either brushed them off or held out its arms in a manner 

 clearly indicating that it wished them removed. 



When not able to obtain any article it desired, or when otherwise thwarted in 

 its wishes, this young creature had recourse to various clever devices by which its 

 object might be attained. For instance, it is related that ' ' when he felt a desire 

 for the sugar or fruit, which was kept in a cupboard in the eating room, he would 

 suddenly leave off playing, and go in an opposite direction to the room, only altering 

 his course when he believed that he was no longer observed. He then went straight 

 to the room and cupboard, opened it, and made a quick and dexterous snatch at the 

 sugar box or fruit basket, sometimes closing the cupboard door behind him before 

 beginning to enjoy his plunder, or, if discovered, he would escape with it; and his 

 whole behavior made it clear that he was conscious of transgressing into forbidden 

 paths. He took a special, and what might be called a childish, pleasure in making" 

 a noise by beating on hollow articles, and seldom missed an opportunity of drum- 

 ming on casks, dishes, or tin trays, whenever he passed by them. ' ' Strange noises, 

 more especially thunder, alarmed him much. 



This gorilla arrived safely at Berlin, where it was for a considerable period art 

 inmate of the Aquarium. There it throve at first, and was docile, though inclined 

 to be mischievous. Eventually, however, it succumbed to the malady which sooner 

 or later carries off all the large Man-like Apes in our climate, dying of a rapid con- 

 sumption in the autumn of 1877, after having lived for fifteen months in Berlin. 



By the intervention of Messrs. Pechuel-Loesche and Falkenstein, a second 

 living gorilla ' was obtained from the Loango district, and safely transported to- 

 Berlin, where it arrived in the early part of 1883. The journey during the winter 

 appears, however, to have left its mark on the constitution of this animal, and after 

 living for fourteen months in the Aquarium it died of the same disease as its 

 predecessor in the spring of 1884. Dr. Hartmann states that there was a third 

 live gorilla at Berlin in the autumn of 1881, which died soon after its arrival. 

 There was also a young gorilla a few years ago in the London Zoological Gardens,, 

 which only lived a few months. 



These appear to have been the only living gorillas which have been exhibited 

 as such in Europe. Curiously enough, however, as far back as the year 1860, a 

 traveling showman in England actually had a veritable living gorilla in his exhi- 

 bition, which he considered to be a chimpanzee, no one suspecting till long after the 

 creature's death the treasure he had possessed. 



THE ORANG-OUTANG 

 Genus Simla 



Partly from the reddish hue of its hair, and partly from the conformation of 

 its face and skull, as well as from the much greater proportionate length of its 

 arms, the great man-like ape of Borneo and Sumatra is a very different looking 

 creature to either the chimpanzee or the gorilla. Owing, however, to the circum- 



