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him with a sufficiency of provender. When from 

 any of his ludicrous actions at table we all burst 

 out in loud laughter, he would vent his indig- 

 nation at being made the subject of ridicule, by 

 uttering his peculiar hollow barking noise, at 

 the same time inflating the air sac, and regard- 

 ing the persons laughing with a most serious 

 look, until they had ceased, when he would 

 quietly resume his dinner. 



The animal had an utter dislike to confine- 

 ment, and was of such a social disposition as 

 always to prefer company, to being left alone : 

 when shut up his rage was very violent, throw- 

 ing every thing about that was lying near, 

 or that he could move, in his place of confine- 

 ment, but becoming perfectly quiet when released. 

 When the animal was standing with his back 

 towards the spectator, his being tail-less, and 

 standing erect, gave him the appearance of a 

 little black hairy man ; and such an object might 

 easily have been regarded by the superstitious 

 as one of the infernal imps. 



When he walks, to use a nautical phrase, 

 " he sways the body," and stepping at once on 

 the whole of the under surface of the foot, occa- 

 sions a pattering noise, like that which is heard 

 when a duck, or any aquatic bird, walks on the 

 deck of a ship. 



