MAMMALOGY. 



In considering the features of this animal with attention, there 

 was an anomalous appearance between age and youth : his unwil- 

 lingness to part with his cup of tea was testified in the expressive 

 glances of an old negro, with the untutored obstinacy of a rustic 

 boy : he clasped the cup so firmly that it would have been broken 

 before it could have been disengaged from bis grasp ; but no sooner 

 was the repast finished than he resumed his former mildness and 

 composure, and obeyed his keeper with affectionate obedience. He 

 was accustomed, as we learnt afterwards, to a seat occasionally at 

 the tea table, in the apartments of Mr. Cross, with himself and fa- 

 mily, where he always behaved with due propriety. An ape or a 

 monkey would have displayed many mischievous tricks among the 

 paraphernalia of the tea table, but Jocko" could be always trusted. 

 Sometimes, though seated at the table, he would decline the pro- 

 ferred favour of partaking of the meal, but this he always did with 

 good behaviour, turning his head aside and uttering a monotonous 

 feeble sound as a sign of his refusal. When he experienced the 

 kindness of any grateful present, such as an orange, or other 

 palatable fruit, he would take the hand of the donor and 

 press it to his lips, or those he knew, if required, he would salute 

 upon the cheek with a kind of kiss ; for he had some little muscular 

 motion in the lips though they were destitute of that pliability 

 which ours possess. Sometimes, after declining to partake of 

 whatever chanced to be upon the table and sitting quietly observing 

 the company with an air of melancholy and mildness, he would de- 

 liberately rise up in his place, survey every object round him, and 

 if any thing happened to attract his fancy, he would, by pointing 

 at it testify his wish for it : upon such occasions his only breach of 

 decorvim has been, when nothing els^upan the table pleased him, to 



