24 ANECDOTES OF ANIMALS. 



off the head of the former, and rejecting the viscera, 

 legs, and hard wing-cases. Besides these, it fed on 

 milk, sugar, raisins, and bread-crumbs. It afterwards 

 made friends with a cat, and slept and ate with this 

 animal, but it never entirely lost its distrustful feelings. 



Lieutenant Edwards, in his voyage up the Amazon, 

 mentions a domestic white monkey, which had con- 

 trived to get to the top of a house, and no persuasions 

 or threats could get him down again. He ran over the 

 roof, displaced the tiles, peeped into the chambers below 

 (for there are no ceilings in that country), and when 

 called, put his thumb up to his nose. He was shot at 

 with corn ; but having found a rag, he held it up before 

 him, and so tried to evade the shot, every now and 

 then peeping over the top. At last he was left to him- 

 self; and when no endeavours were made to get him 

 down, he came of his own accord. Captain Brown 

 mentions a monkey, who, when he was troublesome in 

 the cabin of a ship, was fired at with gunpowder and 

 currant jelly ; and, in order to defend himself, used to 

 pick up the favourite monkey, and hold him between 

 the pistol and himself when it was presented. 



A race of animals exists in Madagascar and some 

 of the Eastern islands, to which the name of Maki has 

 been given, and which, although differing in the for- 

 mation of the skull and teeth, must, from having four 

 hands, be placed among the Quadrumana. They are 

 nocturnal in their habits, very gentle and confiding, 

 with apparently one exception, which is called the Vari. 

 M. Frederick Cuvier has told us that two of these being 

 shut up in a cage together, one killed and ate his com- 

 panion, leaving nothing but the skin. Two of them are 

 remarkable for their slow, deliberate movements ; an.] 



