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of any wound being inflicted by his horns, that it has never been 

 followed by inflammation, and has soon healed. 



" It is a curious circumstance, to which it may be worth while to 

 draw attention, that frequently when he has been sleeping, and even 

 snoring, no one has been able to perceive that his eyes have ever 

 been closed. 



" His food has been various ; slices of raw potatoes at first, when 

 he came, was his favourite food ; but since he has been tried with 

 wheat, and rick beans, and with green branches of any tree, or 

 withered leaves of any kind, he has not eaten of the potatoes at all. 

 Every fruit he readily devours as well as flowers, such as china roses 

 and tulips, or any other gay ornament of the parterre, which made 

 it necessary to confine him to a portion of the garden where he could 

 not help himself quite so freely to its best produce. He has been 

 sometimes observed to dibble in the earth with his sharp hoof, and 

 eat voraciously of the mould ; and once, having got access to a plum 

 tree, he swallowed so much of the fruit, stones and all, as to occa- 

 sion considerable alarm for his safety, till he coughed up the stones 

 quite clean, to the number perhaps of twenty or thirty. He is very 

 fond of hard biscuit, and drinks often of fresh water. In short, a 

 bit of biscuit and an apple have generally been given him as a treat 

 every evening, but wheat and beans are his constant food. 



" His evacuations are regularly three times in the twenty-four 

 hours, never between seven at night and seven in the morning. • The 

 water only is ofl^ensive, or he might be the inmate of a lady's draw- 

 ing-room, he is so perfectly tame and cleanly." 



An account of the habits of the Chimpanzee was communicated by 

 Lieut. Henry K. Sayers. " Bamboo, the Chimpanzee, now in the 

 Zoological Society's Gardens, Regent's Park, and the subject of this 

 sketch," says Lieut. Sayers, " was purchased, about eight months 

 since, from a Mandingo, at Sierra Leone, who related that he had 

 captured him in the Bullom country, having first shot the mother, 

 on which occasions the young ones never fail to remain by their 

 wounded parents. On becoming mine, he was delivered over to a black 

 boy, my servant, and in a few days became so attached to him as to 

 be exceedingly troublesome, screaming and throwing himself into 

 the most violent passion if he attempted to leave him for a moment. 

 He evinced also a most strange aff'ection for clothes, never omitting 

 an opportunity of possessing himself of the first garment he came 

 across, whenever he had the means of entering my apartment, which 

 he carried immediately to the Piazza, where invariably he seated 

 himself on it with a self-satisfied grunt, nor would he resign it 

 without a hard fight, and, on being worsted, exhibited every sym- 

 ptom of the greatest anger. Observing this strange fancy I procured 

 him a piece of cotton cloth, which, much to the amusement of all 

 who saw him, he was never without, carrying it with him wherever 

 he went, nor could any temptation induce him to resign it even for 

 a moment. Totally unacquainted with their mode of living in the 

 wiid state, I adopted the following method of feeding him, which 



