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sitting and leaning his head on his hand, attentively looking at the 

 keepers when at their supper, and watching, to use Hunt's expres- 

 sion, " every bit they put into their mouths." Fuller, the head 

 keeper, informs me that our Chimpanzee generally takes his rest in a 

 sitting posture, leaning rather forward with folded arms and some- 

 times with his face in his hands. Sometimes he sleeps prone, with 

 his legs rather drawn up, and his head resting on his arms. 



" Of the blaek Orangs which I have seen. Tommy is by far the 

 most lively. He is in the best health and spirits, and is a very diff- 

 erent animal from the drooping, sickly Chimpanzees that I have 

 hitherto seen. A good deal of observation made on the Asiatic 

 Orangs which have been exhibited in this country, satisfies me that 

 the intelligence of the African Orang is superior to that of the Asiatic. 

 This intelligence is entirely different from that of a well-educated 

 dog or a mere mimic, and gives me the idea of an intellect more re- 

 sembling that of a human being than of any other animal, though 

 still infinitely below it. 



" The Pygmy of Tyson and the black Orang dissected by Dr. 

 Traill, and so well described by him in the ' "Wernerian Transactions,' 

 are both stated to have progressed generally by placing their bent 

 fists on the ground and so advancing : indeed Dr. Traill says that 

 the individual which he saw never placed the palms of the hands on 

 the ground. The progression of Dr. Abel's red or Asiatic Orang is 

 described to have been after the same fashion. Whether it is that 

 our Chimpanzee is in better health and more lively, I know not, but 

 he certainly passes a great deal of his time in a position nearljr ap- 

 proaching to erect, nor does he, generally, place the bent knuckles 

 to the ground. He will often stand on the top of his cage and 

 apply the palms of his hands to the smooth surface of the wall against 

 which it stands. It is said that a spectator who saw him thus em- 

 ployed, with his back to the company, dressed in his little banyan 

 jacket and woollen cap, was told by a companion to look at the 

 monkey, as he profanely called him. " Where is he ?" was the re- 

 ply. " Why there on the top of the cage," was the answer. " What ! " 

 said the first, "that little man who is plastering the wall?" 



" Tommy does not like confinement, and when he is shut into his 

 cage, the violence with which he pulls at and shakes the door is very 

 great, and shows considerable strength ; but I have never seen him 

 use this exertion against any other part of the cage, though his 

 keeper has endeavoured to induce him to do so in order to see 

 whether he would make the distinction. When at liberty he is ex- 

 tremely playful, and, in his high jinks, I saw him toddle into a 

 corner where an unlucky bitch was lying with a Utter of very 

 young pups, and lay hold of one of them, till the snarling of the 

 mother and the voice of his keeper, to which he pays instant respect, 



