30 THE ZOOLOGIST. 



thief paid for his limitation in calculating power with his life, as 

 he fell a victim to the farmer's rifle. 



Both the specimens I kept were females, one old and the other 

 young, and as time went on our intimacy ripened, and they 

 seemed to become to me more and more like poor relations. The 

 young one I bought from a Boer, who had shot the mother and 

 captured the offspring. It was only after some six months' 

 acquaintance that this animal would be at all friendly, and the 

 explanation I take to be that from wearing a long beard I was 

 not altogether unlike a Boer, and the young Baboon had formed 

 both a distrust and hatred for the murderer of its mother and the 

 capturer of itself. This seemed the more probable, because it 

 always trusted my son, and was friendly with the Kafirs ; whilst, 

 though I never punished it in any way, and bribed it continually 

 with sweets and fruits, it still remained a slave to first im- 

 pressions. This animal used to sleep with a large bull-terrier 

 bitch in its kennel, winding its arms round the body of the dog, 

 which unfortunately died during the Transvaal winter, and the 

 young Baboon contracted a temporary asthma soon after sleeping 

 alone. 



I chained this little animal up outside my office window, the 

 length of chain allowing her to sit when she pleased on the 

 window-sill, which she constantly did, only separated from me 

 as I sat at my desk by the glass ; but the moment I went outside 

 all good relations were at an end, and she showed terror and 

 dislike if I approached within a distance of three feet. She 

 perfectly understood the separating medium of the glass, which 

 she never attempted to break. Even after six months there was 

 still great distrust, and only the friendship of an armed truce. 



Very different was the conduct of the other full-grown matron, 

 who had been long in captivity before I received her as a present. 

 This female, who rejoiced in the name of "Jack,'' possessed the 

 greatest intelligence I ever met with in any animal not of our 

 own genus. Unlike the younger one, she was friendly to all 

 ''whites," but had a perpetual feud with "coloured people," 

 especially Kafirs, who as a rule gave her a wide berth, thus 

 escaping bites, but receiving whenever possible bricks, stones, or 

 other missiles, hurled with no little force and precision. In cold 

 weather — such as winter nights — or when exposed to the full 



