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with me in the wilds and in civilization, in boats, 

 steamers, and in a sailing ship on the ocean 

 always loose and happy in his liberty. At a hotel 

 I stayed at he wandered about everywhere, and 

 when one day he was not to be found, I was taken 

 to the kitchen, where I perceived him on a long 

 table in front of the cooks, very busy tasting the 

 good things they were preparing. 



As this chapter seems to have slid from horti- 

 culture into zoology, I can not while on the sub- 

 ject of the intelligence of animals resist the 

 temptation of narrating the most remarkable case 

 of the clear exercise of reasoning which I have 

 myself witnessed in an animal. 



It was an orang-utan, almost full-grown, and 

 as far as my memory serves me a male. He 

 was in a spacious cage separated by bars from 

 another similar adjoining one which was un- 

 occupied. At the back of each cage was a second 

 compartment, or bedchamber, with raised board- 

 ing and straw upon it. 



After giving my very anthropomorphous 

 friend some bread to eat, I threw a piece into the 

 next cage out of his reach. He made several en- 



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