274 AX ARTIFICIAL MOTHER. 



curious changes of countenance by which it would express its 

 approval or dislike of what was given it. It would lick its lips, 

 draw in its cheeks, and turn up its eyes with an expression of 

 the most supreme satisfaction, when it had a mouthful parti- 

 cularly to its taste. On the other hand, when its food was not 

 sufficiently sweet or palatable, it would turn the mouthful about 

 with its tongue for a moment, as if trying to extract what flavour 

 there was, and then push it all out between its lips. If the same 

 food were continued, it would set up a scream, and kick about 

 violently, exactly like a baby in a passion." 



Mr. Wallace goes on to detail the behaviour of his little Orang 

 Avith a small Hare-lipped Monkey that was given it for a com- 

 panion and playmate. He also mentions his making an " arti- 

 ficial mother " for the little fellow, by wrapping up a piece of 

 buffalo-skin into a bundle, with the long hair outside a con- 

 trivance which succeeded so well that the poor little creature took 

 it for its lost mother, and tried hard to suck. " It would pull 

 itself up close by the strength of its arms, and try everywhere 

 for a likely place, but only succeeded in getting mouthfuls of 

 wool, when of course it would be greatly disgusted, scream 

 violently, and, if not rescued, would soon let itself fall." One 

 day it got so much wool into its throat that it was nigh being 

 choked, and the "dummy " had to be taken away. Mr. Wallace 

 lost his pet, at length, by intermittent fever, after having had it 

 in his possession for nearly three months. 



Next above the Orangs, and, until of late years, regarded as 

 chief of the Apes, and topmost member of the Monkey-tribe, 

 stands the Chimpanzee (Troglodytes niger), whom we herewith 

 introduce. It differs from its allies of the Bornean and Suma- 

 tran forests most obviously in having a broader and flatter skull, 

 in the smaller proportionate size of its incisive and canine teeth, 

 and consequently of the jaws, and in the comparative shortness 

 of the fore-arms and hands ; in all of which particulars it has 

 the advantage of the Orangs in the nearness of its approach to 

 the human form. It is about four feet high, covered with 

 coarse black hair, broad-shouldered, long-armed, somewhat pottle- 

 bellied, and with a wrinkled, semi-human countenance, which is 

 terribly suggestive of some remote affinity to the human family. 

 The name by which the animal is most commonly known amongst 

 the native tribes of Western Africa is Inchego or Engeco, which 



