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the smell had evaporated. By this I taught him to 

 put out his paws, without shewing his nails, always 

 refusing the lavender-water till he had drawn them 

 back again ; and in a short time he never, on any 

 occasion, protruded his claws when offering me his 

 paw. We lay eight weeks in the River Gaboon, 

 where he had plenty of excellent food, but was 

 never suffered to leave his cage, on account of the 

 deck being always filled with black strangers, to 

 whom he had a very decided aversion, although he 

 was perfectly reconciled to white people. His in- 

 dignation, however, was constantly excited by the 

 pigs, when they were suffered to run past his cage ; 

 and the sight of one of the monkeys put him in a 

 complete fury. While at anchor in the before-men- 

 tioned river, an Orang-otan was brought for sale, 

 and lived three days on board ; and I shall never 

 forget the uncontrollable rage of the one, or the 

 agony of the other, at this meeting. The Orang 

 was about three feet high, and very powerful in 

 proportion to his size ; so that when he fled with 

 extraordinary rapidity from the Panther to the fur- 

 ther end of the deck, neither men nor things re- 

 mained upright when they opposed his progress : 

 there he took refuge in a sail, and although gene- 

 rally obedient to the voice of his master, force was 

 necessary to make him quit the shelter of its folds. 

 As to the Panther, his back rose in an arch ; his 

 tail was elevated and perfectly stiff; his eyes flash- 

 ed ; and, as he howled, he shewed his huge teeth : 

 then, as if forgetting the bars before him, he tried 



