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come aboard a Dundee collier from a ship hailing from 

 Calcutta. 



Comparing all these examples and many others for hun- 

 dreds, almost, of similar cases with various animals might 

 be cited certain general facts appear. 



First, incidentally, brutes equally with men become home- 

 sick. Those that stay away, as well as those that return to 

 their former homes, show this very plainly, and often piti- 

 ably. This feeling is the motive which leads them to un- 

 dergo perils and hardships that no other emotion would 

 prompt them to undertake or enable them to endure. But 

 it is the most thoroughly domesticated and most intelli- 

 gent breeds of animals that this homesickness attacks the 

 most severely; while, correlatively, the "most difficult feats 

 of finding their way home are manifested by the same class. 

 It is the finely-bred horses, the carefully-reared pigeons, the 

 highly-educated pointers, fox-hounds, and collies that return 

 from the longest distances and over the greatest obstacles. 



This would seem to indicate that the homing ability is 

 largely the result of education ; whatever foundation there 

 may have been in the wild brute, it has been fostered un- 

 der civilizing influences, until it has developed to an aston- 

 ishing degree. I would like to ask any one who believes 

 that his ability is wholly a matter of intuition an innate 



