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small but malicious bite. Chim looked round with astonishment 

 at this audacious outrage on his person, and put his hand hastily 

 upon the wound, but without losing his temper in the least. 



He walked deliberately to the other 

 side of the circle, and fetched a cane 

 which he had dropped in his prome- 

 nade. He returned with majestic 

 wrath upon his brow, mingled, I 

 thought, with contempt, and taking 

 coati by the tail, commenced punish- 

 ment with his cane, administering 

 such blows as his victim could bear 

 ^•^f^S^^^T^^'^ without permanent injury, and ap- 



Rufous coatimondi. plied with equal justice on the ribs 



at either side. When he thought 

 •enough had been done, he disposed of coati, without moving a 

 muscle of his countenance, by a left-handed jerk, which threw 

 the delinquent high in air, head over heels. 



" He came down a sadder and a better coati, and retired with 

 shame and fear to a distant corner. Having executed this act 

 of justice, Chim betook himself to a tree. A large baboon, who 

 had in the meantime made his appearance in the circle, thought 

 this was a good opportunity of doing a civil thing, and accord- 

 ingly mounted the tree, and sat down smilingly, as baboons 

 smile, upon the next fork. Chim slowly turned his head at this 

 attempt at familiarity, measured the distance, raised his hind 

 foot, and as composedly as he had caned the coati, kicked the 

 big baboon off his perch into the arena below. This abasement 

 seemed to do the baboon good, for he also retired like the coati, 

 and took up his station on the other side. To what perfection 

 of manners and developement of thought the last year and 

 a half may have brought him, I can scarcely guess ; but one day, 

 doubtless, some one will say of him, as an Oriental prince once 

 said to me after looking at the uran ' Peter ' — ^ Does he speak 

 EngUsh yet?'" 



The body of the chimpanzee is covered with long hair on the 

 head, shoulders, and back, but much thinner on the breast and 

 belly. The arms and legs are not so disproportionate as those 

 of the uran, the fore-fingers not quite touching the knees when 

 the animal stands upright. The upper part of the head is very 



