1.6 VERTEBRATA. MAMMALIA. 



those who aided in his death, and almost made 

 them question the nature of the act they were com- 

 mitting. During the period of his being on ship- 

 board, our Chimpanzee was very lively. He had 

 a free range, frequently ran up the rigging, and 

 showed great affection for those sailors who treated 

 him kindly. 



" I saw him for the first time on the 14th instant, 

 in the kitchen belonging to the keeper's apartments. 

 Dressed in a little Guernsey shirt, or banyan jacket, 

 he was sitting, child-like, in the lap of a good old 

 woman, to whom he clung whenever she made a 

 show of putting him down. His aspect was mild and 

 pensive, but that of a little withered old man ; and 

 his large eyes, hairless and wrinkled visage, and man- 

 like ears, surmounted by the black hair of his head, 

 rendered the resemblance very striking, notwith- 

 standing the depressed nose and the projecting 

 mouth. He had already become very fond of his 

 good old nurse, and she had evidently become at- 

 tached to her nursling, though they had been ac- 

 quainted only three or four days ; and it was with 

 difficulty that he permitted her to go away to do her 

 work in another part of the building. In her lap he 

 was perfectly at his ease ; and it seemed to me that 

 he considered her as occupying the place of his mo- 

 ther. He was constantly reaching up with his hand 

 to the fold of her neckerchief, though when he did 

 so she checked him, saying, ' No, Tommy, you must 

 not pull the pin out.' When not otherwise occu- 



