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by moans of ropes. Under such circumstances elephants 

 seize with their trunks any object, dead or alive, to place 

 under their knees, to prevent their sinking deeper in the 

 mud ; and the driver was dreadfully afraid lest the animal 

 should have seized Dr. Hooker and crushed him to death. 

 But the driver himself, as Dr. Hooker was assured, ran no 

 risk. This forbearance, under an emergency so dreadful 

 for a heavy animal, is a wonderful proof of noble fidelity. 



4. Many cases of sympathy in monkeys might be given, 

 but I shall confine myself to stating one which 1 myself 

 witnessed at the Zoological Gardens. A year or two ago 

 there was an Arabian baboon and an Anubis baboon con- 

 fined in one cage, adjoining that which contained a dog- 

 headed baboon. The Anubis baboon passed its band 

 through the wires of the partition in order to purloin a 

 nut which the large dog-headed baboon had left within 

 reach — expressly, I believe, that it might act as a bait. 

 The Anubis baboon very well knew the danger he ran, for 

 he waited until his bulky neighbor had turned his back 

 upon the nut with the appearance of having forgotten all 

 about it. The dog-headed baboon, however, was all the 

 time slyly looking round with the corner of his eye, and no 

 sooner was the arm of his victim well within his cage than 

 he sprang with astonishing rapidity and caught the retreat- 

 ing hand in his mouth. Theories of the Anubis baboon 

 quickly brought the keeper to the rescue, when, by dint of 

 a good deal of physical persuasion, the dog-headed baboon 

 was induced to let go his hold. The Anubis baboon then 

 retired to the middle of his cage, moaning piteous]}', and 

 holding the injured hand against his chest while lie rubbed 

 it with the other one. 



5. The Arabian baboon now approached him from the 

 top part of the cage, and, while making a soothing sound, 

 very expressive of sympathy, folded the sufferer in its arms 

 — exactly as a mother would her child under similar cir 



