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conduct not having been so successful as he expected, he threw 

 himself on his face upon the ground, struck the earth with his 

 fist, screamed, cried, and howled, for more than half-an-hour." 

 When the mangrove was given back to him, he threw it at the 

 head of his master.* It is a curious fact, but the particular 

 friend of Tnan was a negro from Manilla. At Manilla, he ac- 

 customed himself to Tagalf manners, and played with the 

 children. " One day, when Tuan was rolling on some matting 

 with a little girl, about four or five years old, he stopped all of 

 a sudden, and examined the child in a most minute and ana- 

 tomical manner. The results of his investigations seemed to 

 astonish him profoundly ; he retired on one side, and repeated 

 upon himself the same examination which he had made on his 

 little playmate/' We may all remember the eloquent pages 

 in Buffon, where, admitting the Adamic legend, he recounts 

 the impressions of our first parents. Has not nature been 

 here, we ask, a better historian than our naturalist, even with 

 all his genius ? 



Over and above these facts, as their crowning-point, we 

 must invoke as a witness the man who has carried farthest the 

 spirit of philosophy in the natural sciences in France, Etienne 

 Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire. A cautious and profound observer, he 

 mingled with the crowd which the orang drew to the Museum 

 in 1836. Mistrusting his own judgment, he gathered the 

 opinions of all those who surrounded him, of all the visitors 

 who, as he said, " came to observe as unprejudiced spectators, 

 without any preconceived ideas, and without being hindered 

 by those deplorable trammels which we call our rules of clas- 

 sification. " J The result surprised even Etienne Geoffroy him- 

 self. These visitors, so different one from the other, all united 

 in this idea, " that the animal from Sumatra was neither a man 



* The orang observed by J. Grant also showed these signs of desperation ; 

 " he poured it (a saucer) angrily out on the floor, whined in a peculiar man- 

 ner, and threw himself passionately on his back on the ground, striking his 

 breast and paunch with his palms, and giving a kind of reiterated croak." 

 " Account of the Structure of an Orang-Outang," Edinburgh Journal of 

 Science, vol. ix, p. 11. [The same demonstration of feeling was showed by 

 the orangs in the Zoological Gardens, May 1864. EDITOR.] 

 f [Tagal, a chief town of Java. EDITOR.] 

 j Comptes Rendus de V Academic des Sciences, vol. ii, p. 582. 



