2 ANECDOTES OF ANIMALS. 



A few years after, I stood lost in admiration before 

 Sir Edwin Landseer's inimitable picture of Hhe monkey 

 who had seen the world,' in which nature and truth 

 lend their tone and force to the highest efforts of art ; 

 when a voice exclaimed, 'How can you waste your time 

 looking at that thing ? such creatures ought never to 

 have been painted;' and although the speaker was a 

 religious man, he muttered to himself, ' I am not sure 

 they ought ever to have been made.' The voice pro- 

 ceeded from one of the finest instances of manly beauty, 

 one famed also for talent and acquirement. Ra- 

 poynda started into my recollection, and as I slowly 

 left the talented picture, I could not help smiling at 

 the common feeling between the savage and the gentle- 

 man, thereby proving its universality. 



Never did any one start for a tropical climate with 

 a greater antipathy towards these ' wild men ' than I 

 did. I lived years in their vicinity, and yet contrived to 

 avoid all contact with them, and it was not till I was 

 homeward bound that my conversion was effected. The 

 ship in which Mr. Bowdich and myself took a round- 

 about course to England was floating on wide expanse 

 of water, disturbed only by the heavy swell which forms 

 the sole motion in a calm ; the watch on deck were 

 seated near the bows of the vessel ; the passengers and 

 officers were almost all below ; there were only myself 

 and the helmsman on the after- deck : he stood listlessly 

 by the binnacle, and I was wholly occupied in reading. 

 A noise between a squeak and a chatter suddenly met 

 my ears ; and before I could turn my head to see 

 whence it proceeded, a heavy, living creature jumped 

 on my shoulders from behind, and its tail encircled my 

 throat. I felt it was Jack, the cook's monkey, the 



