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to this animal from the Improvement it receives 

 by education, we muft compare the fads -of 

 which we have been eye-witnefles, with the rela- 

 tions of travellers who have feen it in a ftate of 

 nature, in the full poffeflion of liberty, and in 

 captivity. M. de la Brofle, who purchafed from 

 a Negro two orang-outangs, whofe age exceed- 

 ed not twelve months, does not fay that they 

 had been inftrudled by the Negro. It appears, 

 on the contrary, that they fpontaneoufly per- 

 formed moft of the adions above recited. 



* Thefe animals,' he remarks, ' have the in- 

 ' ftind of fitting at table like men. They eat 

 ' every kind of food, without diftindion. They 

 ' ufe a knife, a fork, or a fpoon, to cut or lay 



* hold of what is put in their plate. They drink 

 ' wine and other liquors. We carried them a- 

 ' board. At table, when they wanted any thing, 

 ' they made theml'elves be underftood to the 

 ' cabbin-boy : And, when the boy refufed to give 

 ' them what they demanded, they fometimes be- 



* came enraged, feized him by the arm, bit, and 



' threw him down The male was feized 



' with ficknefs on the road. He made himfelf 



* be attended as a human being. He was even 



* bled twice in the right arm : And, whenever 

 ' he found himfelf afterwards in the fame con- 

 ' dition, he held out his arm to be bled, as if he 



* knew that he had formerly received benefit 



" from that operation.' 



Henry 



