WILD ANIMALS IN CAPTIVITY 



bottle was given her, she would set to work to untwist 

 the wire ; this done, she would get out the cork, if it were 

 not too tightly fixed, and then drink the contents of the 

 bottle. Her attitude in drinking was something quite 

 new. She sat down on her haunches, held the bottle with 

 both hands, and tilted the end of it up with her hind foot, 

 so that the liquid should flow at the proper level into her 

 mouth. In this attitude her appearance was most comical, 

 and at the same time most interesting. 



The most extraordinary part of " Jenny's " performance 

 was that she smoked a pipe. Most monkeys will carry a 

 pipe in their mouths and pretend to smoke, but this was 

 the first monkey that we have ever known actually to 

 smoke lighted tobacco out of a pipe. 



Our illustration shows " Jenny " adorned with her silver 

 collar and war medal, enjo3'ing herself after her day's work. 

 Most monkeys will drink grog, but "Jenny" was especially 

 fond of it, and she always took her glass with her pipe, 

 which she enjoyed quite as much as Forecastle Jack after 

 he had been reefing topsails. Our friend Mr. Buckland 

 called to see "Jenny"; the fair Andamanian, devoid of 

 shyness, repaid the compliments this gentleman offered 

 her, in monkey language, by snatching a half-smoked 

 lighted cigar out of his mouth, and did him the honour to 

 finish it, throwing away the end when it threatened to 

 burn her lips. 



The Andaman natives are said to be the most degraded 

 of human beings. If "Jenny" was an average sample 

 of the monkeys, we would sooner be a monkey than a 

 man, if nature had cast our lot in the far distant Andaman 

 Islands. 



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