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master had not been present, he would actually have 

 carried the man into the tree. This specimen was at 

 that time twenty-one years old. It died in the suc- 

 ceeding year, having increased in stature in the mean 

 time.* 



In the following account of a young male of this 

 species, by W. J. Broderip, Esq., read before the 

 Zoological Society, Oct. 27th, 1835, its habits, in a 

 state of confinement, are drawn with a graphic power 

 and spirit truly delightful. " The interesting animal 

 whose habits in captivity I attempt to describe, was 

 brought to Bristol in the autumn of this year by 

 Captain Wood, from the Gambia coast. The na- 

 tives, from whom he received it, stated that they had 

 brought it about one hundred and twenty miles from 

 the interior of the country, and that its age was 

 about twelve months. The mother was with it, and 

 according to their report, stood four feet six inches 

 in height. Her they shot, and so became possessed 

 of her young one ; and those who have seen our 

 animal will well understand what Dr. Abel means 

 when, in his painful description of the slaughter of 

 an Asiatic Orang, (Simla Satyrus,} he observes, that 

 the gestures of the wounded creature during his 

 mortal sufferings, the human-like expression of his 

 countenance, and the piteous manner of his placing 

 his hands over his wounds, distressed the feelings of 



* An. Biog. vol. i. p. 67 (5th edit.). It is proper to state, however, 

 that more modern naturalists have doubted whether this animal was not a 

 Mandrill, rather than an Orang. 



