THE EAT TRIBE. ^l 



like a person walking on tip- toe, to surprize another. 

 When within a foot of liis prey he would stop, and 

 raising himself upright, advance gently, stretching 

 out his paw, then, at once seizing, would strangle 

 it with remarkable celerity. 



He perished by an accident. He appeared much 

 attached to his master, who always used to carress 

 him after feeding. His relurn ol aflection consisted 

 in taking the end of M. D'Obsonville's fingers, 

 pressing them, and at the same time fixing his half- 

 open eyes on those of his master *. 



Two of these animals, which Thevenot saw in 

 the East, were brought from Ceylon. When ex- 

 amined, they would stand on their hind feet. They 

 often embraced each other, and looked stedfastly 

 on the numerous spectato|-s that visited them, with- 

 out seeming in the least alarmed -f-. 



THE BAT TRIBE. 



THESE very singular animals would seem at first 

 sight to hold a kind of middle station between the 

 Quadrupeds and Birds. It is however only in their 

 .power of raising themselves into the air by means of 

 the membranes which extend round their body, that 

 they are in the least allied to the latter, whilst with 



D'Obsonville, 370 — 373. t delation, iii. 'I'lT- 



