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next moment it suffered him to approach it, and take it by the hand, 

 without the least sign of displeasure. One of its favourite attitudes 

 was to sit " a la Turque," in a low chair, or on the floor before the 

 fire, with a blanket wrapped comfortably around it, and which it 

 arranged without assistance, drawing it over the shoulders and around the 

 body. Thus at ease, it would remain, if its keeper were near, without any 

 change, regardless of all that passed around ; for, unlike the lively, inqui- 

 sitive Chimpanzee, which was interested in all about it, and fond of 

 seizing everything with child-like eagerness, it seemed to take but little 

 interest in the novelties on every side. The sight of the Giraffes, on its 

 first introduction to them, excited neither surprise nor fear. It, how- 

 ever, tried, occasionally, to lay hold of a Giraffe's nose, as it bent its long 

 neck over the rails of the enclosure, and lowered its head toward the 

 Orang, attracted by the food in its hand ; but, in general, it took not the 

 slightest notice of them, though, from time to time, their necks were 

 arched above it. Like its unfortunate predecessor, the Chimpanzee, it 

 recognised its name, and obeyed the command of its keeper ; and it 

 would frequently wrap itself up in the blanket at his bidding, and seat 

 itself in its chair. If, however, he moved to a distance, it immediately 

 followed. The only instance of curiosity, which it manifested on ordinary 

 occasions, was to examine the pockets of its keeper, in search of bread, or 

 some article of diet ; but it seemed to be incited by no spirit of inquisitive- 

 ness. A bystander put a cane, or slender walking stick, into its hand ; it 

 held the stick listlessly, gently applied its teeth as if to try its texture, 

 and easily relinquished it, neither playing with it, nor appearing disposed 

 to retain it. Fond as it was of its keeper, it received his attentions with less 

 apparent pleasure than the Chimpanzee did under similar circumstances. 

 On purpose to incite it to a game of romps, he frequently played with it 

 as with a child, and tickled it in various places about the side and chest, 

 rousing it into momentary mirth: its face at that time assumed the 

 expression of laughter ; it grinned with evident pleasure, its eyes twinkled, 

 and it uttered a half-suppressed, feeble sort of noise, with less, however, 

 of the "chuckle" in it less decidedly laughter -like than were the 

 tones uttered by the Chimpanzee under like treatment ; and when its 

 keeper ceased, it did not invite him to a renewal of the play, but settled 

 into its habitual state of seeming apathy. 



Confinement, which is irksome to all animals, was evidently distressing 

 to this little Orang : it could not bear to be separated by intervening bars 

 from its keeper; and on some attempts to confine it for a short time 

 to its bamboo-latticed enclosure, there being wire between each bamboo, to 

 narrow the interspaces, it strained the latter apart, with its arms, and 

 readily forced itself through, so that cross-wires were subsequently inter- 

 twined with the former, to prevent its egress. 



