2 IK ('ASM-ILL'S POPULAR .NATURAL HISTORY. 



hammock .-mil fell a.~lcep, vlien he was suddenly awaked by a jerk and a boist, Only to find Ir 

 i-i..>,- li\- tin' side cit' his <-<>iiijni;/ii"it <!' coynge. Another experiment at separate sleeping was atl.endi-d 

 In- the same successful movements on the part of Obayseh, and, till they arrived at Southampton, 

 Unmet de.-.isied friuii any further trial, as he avoided, in all ways, any irritation of the animal. 



We will add one other incident : one morning during-the voyage, Unmet, from some cause or other, 

 ied him.-ell' from Obavseh a little longer than usual, when lie ran through his octave of erics, 

 from the most, plaintive to the most violent, and then was profoundly silent "Unmet," says tin- 

 narrator, "thought his I'reedom was aehieved, and then, with the air of an emancipated serf, hit opened 

 lii- wicket, and condescended to return to his tyrant tyrant no longer, as he hoped. Hippo awaited 

 him with a twinkle of his infant eye that curious, prominent, versatile eye, which looks everywhere 

 at once as he floated in the tank, so as to command the interior of his house. 



"Hainet, in his great fidelity, used to keep part of his wardrobe in an angle of the roof, for con- 

 venience of making his toilet without annoying his charge by unnecessary absence. The bundle 

 in which these choice vestments were secured had been pushed down by the revengeful infant, 

 rubbed open with his blunt nose during that ominous silence, and finally, left in such a state, that 

 neither Haniet, nor any other being, Mohammedan or Christian, could ever don them again. Unmet 

 is a well-conducted Mussulman, and not given to indulging in profane language, bvit he addressed 

 Hippo in terms of the strongest reprehension. Hippo twinkled his eye and shook his head, blew a 

 little trumpet through his nostrils, and smiled in triumphant malevolence." 



On Saturday, July 22ud, 1854, a second specimen, a female hippopotamus, was safely deposited in 

 the gardens of the Zoological Society. It was ascertained, during the voyage;, that she was not insensible 

 to music, for, when any one of the musicians on board played his instrument near her, she invariably 

 raised her head in the attitude of listening. The keeper, also, an Arab snake-charmer, was in the 

 habit of exciting the attention of his charge by a kind of musical call, which she answered by vibrating 

 her great bulk to and fro, with evident pleasure, keeping time to the measure of the keeper's song. 

 At the date just mentioned she was about four months old, and weighed a I >ve a ton. She was fed by her 

 keeper opening her mouth with his hand, which he thrust down her throat, covered with milk and 

 corn-meal 



\\ e have now arrived at the last family* of pachydermatous animals, including (lie various forms 

 of swine. The swine have on each foot two large principal toes, shod with stout hoofs, and two lateral 

 toes, which are much shorter, and hardly touch the earth. The incisor teeth are variable in number, 

 but the lower incisors are all levelled forwards. The canines are projected from the mouth, and 

 recurved upwards. The muzzle is terminated by a truncated snout, fitted for turning up the ground, 

 and the stomach is but little divided. 



THE HOG.f 



THE Sacred Writers very seldom allude to this animal, because it was excluded from Canaan during 

 the whole time of the theocratic government. The sons of Abraham, by Keturah, seem to have 

 regarded it with the same aversion as the descendants of Isaac ; for we do not read that Job, who wns 

 probably one of their posterity, possessed so much as one of these creatures. Porphyry, in his book 

 De Abstinentia, expressly denies that any swine were reared in Judea. 



The occupation of a swineherd in ancient Greece appears to have been regarded as honourable as 

 \ ' !! as useful. Homer describes one 



' who, of all Ulysses' train, 



Watch'd with most diligence his rural stores. 

 Him sitting in the vestibule he found 

 Of his own airy lodge commodious, built 

 Amidst a level lawn. That structure neat 

 EumteuP, in the absence of his lord, 



Unaided by Laertes or the Queen. 

 With tangled thorns he fenced it safe around, 

 And with contiguous stakes riv'n from the trunks 

 Of solid oak, black-grained, hemmed it without. 

 Twelve pens he made within, all side by side, 

 Lairs for his Mviue." 



Had raised, himself, with stones from qu.inies hewn, 



The Hog, with which we are familiar, is the domesticated descendant of a race still wild in tho 

 Suidae. (. j us scrofa. Linnosus. 



