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remarkable, for if by accident he touched a spider's 

 web, or rubbish of any kind, he sought to brush it 

 off with absurd horror, or held out his hands to have 

 it done for him. There was no offensive smell about 

 him. It was his favourite amusement to play and 

 paddle about in the water, nor did the fact that he 

 had just taken a bath prevent him from amusing 

 himself by rolling in the sand with other apes 

 immediately afterwards. His good-humour and 

 shyness, or rather roguishness, deserves special men- 

 tion as his strongest characteristic. When he was 

 chastised, as it was necessary to do at first, he never 

 resented the punishment, but came up with a be- 

 seeching air, clinging to my feet, and looking up 

 with an expressive air which disarmed all dis- 

 pleasure. When he was anxious to obtain anything, 

 no child could have expressed its wishes in a more 

 urgent and caressing manner. If in spite of this he 

 did not obtain what he wanted, he had recourse to 

 cunning, and looked anxiously about to see if he was 

 watched. It was just in these cases, when he ob- 

 stinately pursued a fixed idea, that it was impossible 

 not to recognize a deliberate plan and careful calcu- 

 lation. If, for example, he was not allowed to leave 

 the room, or, again, was not allowed to come in, he 

 would, after several attempts to get his own way 

 had been baffled, apparently submit to his fate and 

 lie down near the door in question with assumed 

 indifference. But he soon raised his head in order 

 to ascertain whether fortune was on his side, edging 

 himself gradually nearer and nearer, and then, look- 

 ing carefully round, he twisted himself about until 



