64 VERTEBRATA. 



" M. Werner, a celebrated painter of natural history, wished to make a sketch of her. Jacqueline 

 Bhowed great surprise on seeing her image on the paper, and made signs that she wished to draw 

 also. They gave her a pencil and paper, and seating herself gravely at the table of the artist, 

 traced with great joy Bome large figures and lines. As she bore on heavily, the point of her 

 pencil broke, and she was very much vexed. To console her, the drawing-master cut her pencil, 

 and, learning by experience, she did not bear on so heavily the next time. Having observed M. 

 Werner put the point of the pencil into his mouth, she did the same, but in so doing she always 

 broke the point with her teeth. It was impossible to prevent this, and so they were obliged to 

 put an end to her artistic studies. She tried to sew, in imitation of the woman who took care of 

 her, but she constantly pricked her fingers. She therefore threw her work away, and jumping 

 upon a rope that had been stretched across the room for her amusement, she made some turn- 

 overs that would have astonished the boldest rope-dancer. 



"Jacqueline had a dog and cat that she was very fond of. She allowed them to sleep with her, 



one on each side; but notwithstanding this apparent familiarity, she knew how to preserve th« 



place due to her on account of her superior intelligence, and when she judged it necessary, chas- 



; them severely to make them obedient to her, and to force them to live together without 



quarreling. 



" Poor Jacqueline was in the habit of washing her hands and face every morning with cold 



r. These ablution-, added to the rigors of a climate so different from that of Africa, probably 



sed the consumption of which she died. Jack, the orang-outang that had lived in the cell 



ire her arrival, and also the chimpanzees formerly owned by Buffon and the Empress Josephine, 



died of the same disease." 



Many other accounts have been furnished of the chimpanzee, from which we select the follow- 

 ing description of a young male of this species : it was read before the Zoological Society of Lon- 

 don, October 27th, 1S35, by Mr. Broderip. Its habits, in a state of confinement, are drawn with 

 graphic power and a 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 natives, from whom 

 he received it, stated that they had brought it about one hundred and twenty miles from the 

 rior of the country, and that its age was about twelve months. The mother was with it, and, 

 irding to their report, stood four feet six inches in height. Her they shot, and so became 

 l of ler young one. During the period of his being on ship-board, in coming to England, 

 he was very lively. He had a free range, frequently ran up the rigging, and showed great affec- 

 tion for those sailors who treated him kindly. 



"1 saw him for the first time on the 14th instant, in the kitchen belonging to the keeper's 

 apartments. Dress< d in a little Guernsey shirt, or banyan jacket, he was sitting, child-like, in the 

 lap of a goo 1 old woman, to whom he clung whenever she made a show of putting him down. 

 II - asp was mild and pensive, like that of a little withered old man ; and his large eves, hair- 

 I — and wrinkled visage, and manlike ears, surmounted by the black hair of his head, rendered 

 the resemblance very striking, notwithstanding the depressed nose and the projecting mouth. If 

 had already become very fond of his good old nurse, and she had evidently become attached to 

 her nursling, tho igh they had been acquainted only three or four days; and it was with difficult) 

 that he permitted her to go away t i do her work in another part of the building. In her lap lie 

 was perfectly at his ease; and it seemed to me' that he considered her as occupying the place of 

 his mother, lie was constantly reaching up with Ins hand to the fold of her neckerchief, tliouirb 

 when he di I so die checked him, saying, ' No, Tommy, you must not pull the pin out.' When 

 nol otherw o ipied, he would sit quietly in her lap, pulling liis toes about with his tin. 



h the same pensive air as a human child exhibits when amusing itself in the same manner., 

 I wished to examine his teeth ; and when Ins nurse, in order to make him open his mouth, thre* 

 him back in her arm- and tickled him, just as she would have acted toward a child, the caricature 

 was complete. 



- I off re 1 him my nngloved hand. He took it mildly in Ins, with a manner equally exempt. 

 from forwardness and fear ; examining it with his eyes, and perceiving a ring on one of my finger-. 



