146 UNGKA APE. 



when the animal walks. The toes are short ; 

 the great toe is the longest. The eyes are close 

 together, with the irides of a hazel colour ; the 

 upper eyelids have lashes, the lower have none. 

 The nose is confluent with the face, except at the 

 nostrils, which are a little elevated. The mouth 

 large, ears small, resembling the human, except 

 in being deficient in the pendent lobe. He has 

 nails on the fingers and toes, and has hard tu- 

 bercles on the tuberosities of the ischium, but is 

 destitute of a tail or even the rudiment of one. 



His food is various : he preferred vegetable 

 diet, as rice, plantains, &c., and was ravenously 

 fond of carrots, of which we had some quantity 

 preserved on board. Although, when at dinner, 

 he would behave well, not intruding his paw 

 into our plates, having " acquired politeness," as 

 Jack would say, by being on board, yet, when 

 the carrots appeared, all his decorum was lost, 

 in his eager desire for them ; and it required some 

 exertion to keep him from attacking them " with 

 tooth and paw," unmindful whether we wished 

 it or not, and against all the laws and regula- 

 tions of the table. A piece of carrot would draw 

 him from one end of the table to the other, over 

 which he would walk, without disturbing a sin- 

 gle article, although the ship was rolling at the 

 time ; so admirably can these animals balance 



