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as for temper, after starving him twenty-four hours, all 

 I gained was that he came slowly up and took some 

 berries from the forest out of my hand, immediately 

 retreating to his corner to eat them. 



" Daily attention from me for a fortnight more did not 

 bring any further confidence from him than this. * * * 

 At the end of this fortnight I came one day to feed 

 him, and found that he had gnawed a bamboo to pieces 

 slyly, and again made his escape. Luckily, he had but 

 just gone. As I looked around I caught sight of Master 

 Joey making off on all-fours, and with great speed, 

 across the little prairie for a clump of trees. 



" I called the men up, and we gave chase. * * * He 

 did not ascend a tree, but stood defiantly at the border 

 of the wood. About one hundred and fifty of us sur- 

 rounded him. As we moved up he began to yell, and 

 made a sudden dash at a poor fellow who was in 

 advance, who, as he ran, tumbled down in a fright, and 

 by his fall escaped, but also detained Joe sufficiently 

 long for the nets to be brought to bear upon him. 



"Four of us again bore him struggling into the 

 village. This time I would not trust him to the cage, 

 but had a little light chain fastened round his neck. 

 This operation he resisted with all his might, and it 

 took us quite an hour to securely chain the little fellow, 

 whose strength was something marvellous. 



* * * " To the last he continued utterly untame- 



