PLATE LVII. 



take withoufe permission, or the assistance of the tea tongs, a small 

 lump of sugar from the sugar-dish between his thumb and finger. 



Fruit was the most grateful of his food. When ill he had broth, 

 which he would eat out of a bason with a spoon, as he had been 

 taught it seems by the boatswain of the " Caesar", in his voyage 

 from Java to England. His partiality for raw meat while on board 

 the ship, which Mr. Abel intimates, was not observable while he 

 remained in the Exeter Change Managery : nor indeed was he sin- 

 gular in this respect, for none of the Simla race subsist on animal 

 food : if by accident they are presented with a piece of raw meat 

 they throw it away after chewing it a little to extract the juice, and 

 it is indeed seldom that they are induced to put it into their mouths. 

 Tea, milk, and water, he was in the usual habit of drinking, and 

 Mr. Abel mentions coffee. His predeliction for strong liquors was 

 plain from his once taking a bottle of the captain's brandy. After his 

 arrival in England, he had no access to such ardent spirits, but beer 

 and ale in particular delighted him : he would drink with his keeper, 

 mug for mug, till his intellectual powers were pretty well overcome, 

 and half tipsey Jocko, in such moments, was rather inclined to mer- 

 riment ; not testifying his mirth by any apeish or mischievous tricks, 

 t)ut relaxing a little from his usual gravity would romp with much 

 good-nature, appearing at such times to forget he was a captive 

 and seeming to consider himself only among his friends. 



Sometimes when the keepers of the Managery were sitting down re- 

 galing themselves in his room with a tankard of ale, he would atten- 

 tively watch all their movements beneath him, seated in his hammock 

 near the ceiling, in the expectation of being invited to partake of his 



