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back with his familiar friends and companions, and 

 would settle down and live quite contentedly until, 

 when another bad spell in the weather occurred after 

 six or twelve months, he would disappear again, and 

 this state of things continued as long as he lived. 



The explanation of Moro's action is, I fancy, 

 simple enough. He was reconciled to his second home 

 and attached to the animals he consorted with, and 

 had no desire to return to his former home in ordinary 

 circumstances. But in the intense discomfort induced 

 by a seemingly endless spell of bad weather, when he 

 was being lashed with cold rain perpetually day and 

 night, he was reminded of his home ; he had an image 

 of the wide green plains bathed in everlasting genial 

 sunshine: the image, the vision, produced the illu- 

 sion that even thus would he see it again if he re- 

 turned to it, and in the end he fled back a distance 

 of forty miles to escape from his misery. 



We know that animals are capable of visualising 

 past scenes in this way. I have given instances of this 

 faculty and the delusions it gives rise to, in writing 

 of the horse and guanaco in my Naturalist in La Plata. 



It remains to speak of the sense of direction in 

 man. He is dependent on the same senses and faculties 

 as any other rapacious mammal in his quest for food. 

 No doubt the higher we go in the organic scale the 

 less dependent the animal is on instinct pure and 

 simple: in other words, the more does intelligence 

 enter into the instinctive act. Thus, we will find an 

 instinct common to mammals and birds less intelli- 

 gent and more perfect in the latter, In birds, we may 



