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taps with the hand upon this animal, as I do with 

 a horse, I rather scratched and rubbed him ; and, 

 in this manner I continued, till I handled him 

 with as much ease as I could a dog, and even took 

 hold of his tusks. I left him for half an hour, and 

 when I came back, he was eating corn, for the first 

 time since he had been caught. He appeared to 

 have been about two years old. In the afternoon, 

 I handled him again, for some time; and, finding 

 him so extremely gentle, I ventured to take him 

 out of the cage into the yard, though Avith the pre- 

 caution of tying a rope about his neck, in case of 

 his becoming refractory. Before I took him out, 

 however, I made my servant and tw^o or three In- 

 dian boys handle him. This last precaution was 

 useless, as he follow^ed me into the house, and ate 

 corn out of my hand. I caused him to be handled 

 and fed that evening and the next morning, when 

 he was finally turned loose among the pigs. This 

 was in the year 1825. I came away the next day, 

 and heard no more of him, and have never had a 

 second trial upon that kind of animals. 



To return, again, to the horse, which we left al- 

 ready familiarized to man. Supposing him, as I 

 said in the beginning, to belong to that class which 

 only fears man, or has little fear of any thing else : 

 the horse is gentle, in doing which you may have 

 employed two or three hours ; but he has no 



