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to their utmost extent. In a wild state, they possess 

 an intuitive knowledge of what will harm them, 

 and combining with it great cunning, they most 

 frequently disappoint their enemies. They attack at 

 a distance, and threaten with their cries, but only 

 use their powerful strength, and formidable tusks, when 

 compelled by danger. The naturalist we have men- 

 tioned above, would even attribute to them a power 

 of higher intelligence that they will destroy a planta- 

 tion from revenge, watching their opportunity ; and 

 he relates an anecdote of the Chacma,* which severely 

 bit his keeper upon being threatened to be struck, 

 though the animal had never seen a stick, and had 

 never been beaten. In like manner, he continues, 

 are these animals so susceptible of the instruction of 

 circumstances in a wild state, capable of receiving it 

 artificially from man, and they are often met with 

 performing various feats at the command of their 

 keepers ; but he adds, it is only when young that they 

 thus submit. They retain a kind of docility longer 

 than the period of their youth, but it is effected in a 

 different way; their passions or their likings must 

 be administered to. Such was the case with the speci- 

 men of the Mandril so long exhibited in Exeter Change, 

 under the name of " Happy Jerry." He would have 

 done anything for gin and water, and the love of drink 

 became so strong, that he would have made any 



* See description, page 15G. 



