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London, not only being a favorite with all visitors, but he once had the distinguished honor of 

 being invited to visit his majesty George IV. at Windsor. lie was nearly five feet hio-h when 

 standing on his hind-legs ; he sat in a chair, drank porter from a pewter mug, and smoked his 

 pipe, like a respectable John Bull. 



Mr. Mathews gives the following account of a tame baboon in the possession of a Koranna in 

 South Africa. Its master, knowing its intense dread of serpents, out of mere sport once put a 

 dead snake around its neck. The creature sat for some time, quite stupefied by fear : when the 

 object of its dread was removed, he slunk away into the hut. From this time he refused to obey 

 his master, and when chastised with a stick, sprung upon him and bit him severelv. Then, as if 

 having thoroughly broken his bonds, he fled to the mountains. The Koranna, having recovered 

 from his wound, and being determined on revenge, went in pursuit of the baboon. At last 

 he descried him, peeping over a precipice. He took aim and fired, but the cunning creature 

 had held another monkey forward which received the ball, while he himself scampered off to 

 the woods. 





THE BABOON MOTHER AND HER INFANT. 



M. Boitard furnishes us with the following: "There have been, and still are, in the menagerie 



of the Garden of Plants, a number of baboons, and four vears a<ro a female who had a vouncr one 



turnished one of the most amusing and singular spectacles I ever witnessed. She was placed with 



it in a cage, near the one she formerly occupied with several other animals of the same species. 



The infant baboon was hideously ugly, but she lavished upon it the most tender caresses. When 



it was eight days old, the door of communication was opened, and her mate entered. The mother. 



seated in the middle of the cage, held the young heir in her arms, precisely as a nurse would do 



mder similar circumstances. The happy father approached, and embraced his mate with French 



gallantry upon each side of the face ; he then kissed the little one, and sat down opposite the 



nother, so that their knees touched each other. They then both began to 'move their lips with 



apidity, taking the young one from each other's arms, as if they were having a most animated 



•onversation concerning it. 



" The door was again opened, and the baboon friends entered one after another, each embracing 



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